Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...support as to justify its repetition another year. The students in German thus far have not encouraged anything of the sort. An excellent course in reading at sight last year attracted but few, and therefore was not given again this year. It is true that students are not as well acquainted with German as with French; yet if all who would find these readings of profit should attend, there would be no lack of numbers...
...Will not the father's speech, `Well, son, I trust that you have never forgotten to be a gentleman,' go through us like a knife, if we have any recollections of uproarious crowds of students in company with whom we boarded the cars with wild shouts and songs, and stamped and halloed until all the passengers were disgusted or enraged...
...Dartmouth is certainly one of the most enterprising of our exchanges. The pictures of the Faculty that it has contained from month to month have been excellent photographs of fine-looking men. The local department is especially well sustained, and in the last number a bright letter from Vassar enables one not to be severe on a four-column article entitled "Fossil Bird-Tracks...
...parody, or intended to be serious. "I'll nip the canker in the bud" is a pleasing, though at first sight a startling figure; nipping cankerworms must be an agreeable entertainment on a spring morning in the country. The gentleman who makes this remark in the poem, is - Well, his name is not usually mentioned in polite society; and be makes it apropos...
...least excitement, wear spring-bottomed trousers, - or a thousand other things. The more important question is, What is "the thing"? and this we have never been able to solve, though we, like many others, have devoted our life to that end. Some say, "not to study"; others, "to dress well"; the Freshmen think they have found it at the Howard: but the general opinion seems now to indicate light ulsters...