Word: vented
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accountable for the trouble, and was greatly censured for having abused the students in his paper. The directors recommended the reinstatement of the students. The faculty, in recognition of the action of the directors, returned the students to their former standing in the university. Vickers, in attempting to vent his spite on undergraduates, has overreached himself, and is having an unpleasant experience. This morning the Cincinnati Gazette said concerning Vickers: "Rebuked by the directors, unsupported by the faculty, disliked by undergraduates, dispised by the alumni, looked upon with aversion by the teachers of Woodward, Hughes and other preparatory schools, obnoxious...
...wearing the mortar-board, an English custom aped by some of our smaller American colleges, presumably for the purpose of giving them a somewhat "Englishy" look. A Tufts correspondent of the Boston Post, yesterday, gave his college away by fathering these mortarboards. The representative of this distinguished institution gives vent to his wounded feelings in the following letter to the Post, which we republish in full, for the amusement of our readers...
...dignity." Besides, I would keep up the old traditions of the college. There is no occasion nor excuse for ruffianism; the class may have a memorable evening's fun without placing themselves liable to arrest, or disgracing themselves or the college. What matters it if the Boston press does "vent its indignation?" That's what newspapers are for. Let the class of '85 show themselves gentlemen, at least, as much as the upper classes, but let not their "dignity" and faintheartedness prevent their trying to make their college days what they should be, the pleasantest part of their-lives...
...must understand that it lies entirely with himself to gain the respect and to excite the interest of his scholars; the one is an unfailing companion of the other. If he fail to do either, the teacher must blame himself, and should not so far forget himself as to vent his ill-feeling upon the men who are under...
...giving voice and fancy vent...