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Word: uncouth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...while the poetry is not quite up to its usual mark. The eminent historian, Mr. James Schouler, contributes the first article on "Andrew Jackson, Doctor of Laws," and in it he gives a very entertaining sketch of the farce of conferring the degree of L. L. D. on so uncouth a Westerner as President Jackson was. Mr. Schouler's description of Andrew Jackson's characteristics and his estimate of his culture are particularly interesting. Harvard's attitude in conferring the degree on the people's president is freely ridiculed and a vivid picture is given of the scene in University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Monthly." | 2/1/1888 | See Source »

...English department does not have more scope allowed it, that after all such a comparatively few of the men now in college have this literary curiosity. It is a notorlous fact that a French gamin has a very pronounced gift of language and diction, while the American breed is uncouth and unintelligible. From the study of other literatures we are able to derive a style of our own in which the beauties of several languages are combined; by the study of archaeology, by the study of history of any kind, facts which possess a deep significance of their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/15/1887 | See Source »

...scene of revelry which we shall not soon forget. The altan is covered with tables and chairs; and busy waiters are dashing madly about with fluid refreshment. Above us looms the beautiful facade of the castle, its grim statues and stone gorgons, its fluting and arabesques, all that is uncouth and grotesque and mournful and majestic, flooded over with electric light and thrown into sharp relief. Far beneath us twinkle the lights of Heidelberg, from whose distant streets a gentle murmur is upborne. About us are throngs of students in their bright colored caps; old veterans are clasping each other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Heidelberg Jubilee. I. | 11/1/1886 | See Source »

...should assume a cachinnatory expression." Truly the Harvard man is lord of the universe! This uncouth and unlettered savage at once changed his whole demeanor. He forthwith produced a horse eleven hands high, 1 which he bestrode. He then vaulted through the woods. I laid hands on a vagrant hyena and did likewise. He swam over lakes; I also swam over lakes. He bounded-over torrents; I also bounded over torrents. He scaled cliffs; I also scaled cliffs. At last we stopped before the door of a wigwam. In the darkness within I could just discern a female form...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUIZZICAL CLUB. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »

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