Word: worded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...world, you also would call Cambridge a hole. This leaves you with the comfortable feeling that you are very ignorant of things in general, being acquainted with the manners and customs of "holes" only. However, I will leave my readers to find out the exact meaning of the word as used in this way, with hopes that they have not lived, as I have, in a "Hole...
...serious societies may be dismissed with a word. They are wretched, dead affairs, which are only held together by shingles and seals. If you join one, you will attend a meeting or two, find it stupid, and afterwards stay away. The treasurer will send you a bill or two, which you will forget to pay. Your name will be posted, but nobody will read it. And in the end you will resign, having gained no advantage except a certificate of membership. The truth is that French clubs and German clubs and chess clubs have no real reason for existence...
...public property, and all that sort of thing, are not feats which I should call characteristic of gentlemen. To be sure, in nine cases out of ten this behavior is due to mere thoughtlessness, and I do not doubt that many a good fellow - in every sense of the word - has taken part in it. But I am sure that by such behavior a man gains neither in self-respect nor in caste, - for want of a better word; and if these societies make any overtures to you - as I cordially hope that they will not - I must...
...stay away and not utter complaints. As we have said, we do not agree with these radical views. In fact, we are obliged to confess that the "social roughs," as one correspondent of the Transcript terms these offensive undergraduates, can learn from these letters many instructive truths. A word to the wise, we hope, will be sufficient...
...word more, and I have done. Take an interest in literary matters, and write for the College Pen. Nothing gives so much eclat to a man's entree into society as a little reputation as a scribbler. The Pen is read everywhere, and anything you write will have a large and appreciative audience. Do not, however, let them publish the addresses you deliver before the literary societies. They may be well enough in their place, but entre nous, they smack a little of the Occident. Besides, it is well not to identify one's self with one's companions...