Word: verdant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen failed to do their part toward entertaining the crowd on the pier, - that is their crew did, - but the usual number of excited freshmen went rambling through the boat house, asking the difference between a shell and a barge, or a sliding-seat and a stretcher; and one verdant youth created much merriment by remarking that "our crew isn't rowing badly at all," and then pointing to '86 making their way slowly down the river...
...this time of the year many of the "exchange editors" are cordially wishing each other, at the heads of their columns, a "Happy New Year," and sarcastically criticising the exchanges further down. "A Happy New Year to you all," begins one amiable critic, remarking later on that "our verdant little High School contemporary informs us this month," etc. Very clearly the holiday greetings were not intended for the "little High School contemporary." The battles which exchange editors fight with each other, with such keen weapons as cutting sarcasm and irony, are closely watched by the readers, who never fail...
...them, the average college professor and the newly packeted, stamped, and delivered A. B. felt a high-born disdain for a study like History. To them a study which had occupied no place in their education was of but small value in the education of others. Today the verdant youth who has not learned better finds that his delay has cost him a seat on the crowded benches in History 25. On rushing from the empty rooms of other departments of study, the sophomore of today is only by cunning and force enabled to wedge himself into a window...
...will not do to wait till spring, and then join. If this be attempted, the grass upon the grave of this once flourishing society will be as green as the most verdant freshman in the freshwater colleges of Ohio. Now is the time, now is the opportunity, and now, we are sure, are plenty of men ready and willing to put their shoulders to the wheel and help the society out of the mire in which a too sanguine management has placed...
...idea, and that idea lies at a greater depth than the mere names themselves. Sub-freshmen don't properly belong in college, but sub-freshmen in the sophomore class! What does it mean? A freshmen proper is expected at the beginning of the year to appear a little verdant, as they say; indeed he is not to be blamed for it. But when the freshman has become a sophomore he is supposed to have set aside his freshman ways. But what are we to think of men who have retained their grammar schoolboy ways and introduced them into their sophomore...