Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...entirely given up, but remain in a more refined form; rum and navy plug being exchanged for some light wine and cigarettes, over which the most abstruse points of philosophy are discussed far into the night. The bar-room has become the porch of the philosopher. The bar-tender - there being no demand for mixed drinks - brings his former experience to bear on chemical experiments...
This I know to be a fact; for, during the first term, our entry was given up to the tender mercies of a woman who had been in Thayer last year, and who now has been removed to Matthews, while we, alas! ponder over the resemblance of her successor to the lean and ill-favored kine of Pharaoh's dream...
Resolved, That while as yet we can hardly realize this so great misfortune, - the first that has befallen our class, - we tender our heartfelt sympathy to his bereaved family...
...TENDER-HEARTED Freshman saw a man weeping violently before University yesterday, and inquired the cause of his grief. "Alas, young man," responded the editor, - for such he was, - "beneath those stones lies buried my favorite brevity...
...Glee Club showed a want of rehearsal, but sang well enough in their first three numbers, receiving an encore on "Fair Rohtraut," and giving "Love's Call" very smoothly. The tender calling of the second basses at the end of the latter piece aroused the expectations of the audience for the bass solo. The "Wein Galop," a sparkling piece of music, was sung unevenly, parts however being very well done...