Word: wente
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...recent great University race in England, Mr. J. E. Peabody, an American, was in the winning crew. Had Mr. Peabody followed out his original intention of coming to Harvard, he would have been a most valuable member of our boating community. But fate decreed otherwise, and he went to our Mother University in England, where he has gained considerable reputation as a boating man, and is very favorably spoken of by the papers. We should feel proud that our reputation is so well sustained abroad...
...ruin of some fellow-student, and ruthlessly execute it. All of us are familiar with the method of a young man's ruin. We know the lad who entered college a member of one of the strictest churches, well fortified by parental and pastoral advice. For a time all went well with him, and, having talent, he grew in culture and influence. At last, however, his strength failed, and he went down, carrying with him a host of less able...
...discovered that in a certain poem ninety-five per cent of the words was of Anglo-Saxon origin, three and a half was Western slang, while but one and a half per cent was Latin or Greek! He was proclaimed the people's poet, and, for a time, all went well: but he had climbed too high to keep his position; it began to be thought that Homer was, after all, not likely to be rivalled by Joaquin Miller, and that Shakespeare was a better poet, even if he did use longer words. Socially, too, he was no longer successful...
...rigid, while the larger number rejected at Yale only shows, of course, that the candidates examined at Yale were more poorly prepared"; and he furthermore adds, "A young man" [a single example only is cited] "was refused admission to the Sophomore class at Yale for deficiency of preparation. He went directly to Harvard College, offered himself as a candidate for the Junior class there, and was admitted." There is more truth, perhaps, in the first of these quotations than the author supposes. For how would he explain the notorious fact that nearly every year many candidates for admission...
...crops; make the greatest display of your shallow agricultural information, and then laugh in your sleeve to catch from the whispered comments, "Remarkable clever young feller," "Seems to know considerable"; and, from the good old ladies, "Why, he's perlite's a basket o' chips." And then, when you went to ride with that cousin of yours, though we all know the horse took his own time when you were off on the back roads, how you straightened up as you drove down into the village, and reasoned with that horse (illustrating liberally with cuts) to so good purpose that...