Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wide Awake for May will contain Charles Kingsley's ballad, "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever," set to music by Professor Paine...
...Mistakes and Improprieties of Conversation and Writing Corrected." The address is a clear and positive exposition of the general laws and rules that should govern conversation, and though originally written for and delivered before young ladies, the principles set forth are applicable alike to all persons. The doctor's wide experience of life and society makes him a valued authority, and the advice he gives is practical, and illustrated by familiar examples of many common and insiduous errors of language and expression. Trench's lecture is a more elaborate and careful inquiry into the rules of discourse and the relations...
...regular bath rooms, a spray bath room of 8 feet by 10, a hot room to dry and rub down in, a shower bath room, sparring room, statistic room, billiard rooms and bowling alleys. The base-ball and tennis room is to be 100 feet long and 40 feet wide, surrounded by a wire cage. There is also to be a fine running track and rooms for three students, whose duty it will be to act as custodians of the entire property. These plans propose very elaborate arrangements, and if carried out will give a very fine and complete gymnasium...
...trousers, too, would certainly have been too wide and our coats too long if it were not for a conspicuous, not to say indecent, display of trouserings made by certain other of our friends...
...first important measure for the committee, or whoever has the care of such matters, is to prosecute a strict inquiry as to the cause for the present stampede, and if any person or persons are to blame, to make known the fact. There must be some reason for such wide-spread dissatisfaction, and the only way to restore the lost patronage is to seek it out, acknowledge and eliminate it. We speak thus strongly upon the subject, as there is urgent necessity that vigorous measures be taken: The association has done a great deal of good in the past...