Word: worded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Imagine the professor examining another man; and thus disposing of him: "Memory, poor; mathematics, none; language, wanting; perspicacity, none; common-sense, the merest trifle. Why, upon my word, you are admirably prepared for the law school or the scientific school...
...Harvard's dashing old oars predicted that it would be the harbinger of victory; and, in spite of my apathy, I could not help feeling proud that the prediction had come to pass. The bright folds were now stretched by the wind, and showed the dear old word to which, when we are out of Cambridge, we all so fondly cling...
...house, I saw on the river near by a few single sculls, propelled by arms that, from the splashing of the oars, seemed inexperienced. A few fellows in rowing-clothes were lounging about the floats and gangways, waiting for others to come and help form a crew. Soon the words, "Get ready, fellows!" struck my ear, and I saw a half-dozen stalwart forms hasten up the stairs to the dressing-rooms. In a few minutes they appeared in their rowing-clothes, and took their places beside a ponderous craft, called the "Barge," which, with its iron keel, outriggers...
...Index might have saved itself the trouble of putting in the last word. In its case read and work are beyond a doubt synonymous. We must acknowledge, however, the justice of some remarks about the Advocate and the Crimson...
...facts. The same was the case with the Independent, which felt called upon to read us a lecture on behavior, but which admitted that the evil practices deplored were confined to a comparative few, and that the majority of Harvard students were gentlemen in the best sense of that word. These attacks were well answered in several Boston papers, the Post especially showing, in an able editorial, that at least there was nothing radically wrong in Harvard studies or discipline...