Word: vulgarizations
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AEstheticism is voted bad form and vulgar in English society. Athleticism has taken its place, and all sorts of vagaries in the worship of physical culture hold full sway...
...disgraceful; the wine parties that Tom Brown used to attend are going out of fashion; college rows and scrapes are things of the past; the ancient brawls between town and gown are no more known; hazing is unheard of." The sentiment is that it is worse to be vulgar than to be wicked...
...editors of the HARVARD HERALD are, presumably, not aware, and so Vassar College gets the credit of the production, and Vassar girls are judged by its standard. If our own girls will spread abroad such stories concerning the college, we cannot be surprised at the perpetuity of the vulgar banister, chewing-gum, and other like things...
...sermon yesterday Beecher called the present Congress the "fool Congress," for cutting off the emigration of the Chinese, who he said were necessary to do the "vulgar" work...
...more likely to influence poetry and literature, as well as practical life, than the stylograph. Poets have always looked with peculiar veneration on the pens which have enabled them to transcribe their flowing thoughts, and the stylograph is a much more proper object for poetic inspiration than the vulgar goose quill or commonplace steel pen. A more poetical name might, perhaps, be invented for it, and we can easily imagine a poet addressing an ode to his stylograph, and introducing some simile such as, that as he carried stored up in the treasury of his brain the poem which...