Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very much as Verdant Green must have felt at his first wine party. He had been invited by a friend to meet a few men, and have a quiet talk over a glass of wine, and he had prepared himself accordingly, and in dress coat and white tie, he went prepared to hear edifying discussions and profound deductions from the data gathered during years of hard study. To his surprise, on entering a room, filled with smoke and men dressed in every variety of costume, from dressing jacket to cricket flannels, the conversation ran on entirely different subjects. "Would Brazen...
...They went to cast the classic...
...impossible for a poor boy to work his way through Harvard. That this impression is false is shown by the fact that students graduate every year who have obtained their education unassisted, and cases are not unknown of such students coming out considerably richer than when they went in. There are two resources which the poor student has-first, the college; second, himself. Probably no institution in the world offers more pecuniary aid to students than Harvard." The writer goes on to enumerate the various ways in which the college assists the needy student. After mentioning scholarships, monitorships, loan funds...
...cream out of the mould without getting the salt into it and without destroying the form in which the cream was moulded. Her instructions were received without visible signs of comprehension by the servant, and Mrs. Butterfield having agreed to slip down and attend to it, they went up to the drawing-room. There they found Asphyxia and two of her friends who were to pour out tea for the company and attend to the masculine "small-fry" who might be present. Asphyxia was dressed in a saffron colored cashmere. The skirt was perfectly plain and fell in natural folds...
...Whitman's candy to one of them; and then they thought they could discover the culprit by asking all the innocent ones to go to the board and tell them that it was not they; and then the Miscellany got mad because only the older girls went, ("older" means here, those who are "allowed to receive callers,") and says: "We wish that the author of the article could have heard the strong expressions of sorrow made to various members of the board by the older students; we think that she might have modified her views concerning what doubtless appears...