Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...significant word on the subject of steamheating is contained in the following passage of his report: "The most serious foes to health are late hours, late suppers, insufficient clothing, and imprudent exposures to heat and dampness and cold. * * * The provisions for heating so many of our public and private apartments by steam is, and has proved to be, an important security against disease. The interest in athletic sports is, on the whole, an advantage to health and morals and good manners...
...Chadbourne is delivering lectures in geology twice a week to the juniors. Our own professor conducts a "quiz" afterward, which is dreaded beyond measure. To a looker-on it is quite amusing to watch the progress of a recitation. The professor's face is immovable; she never utters a word nor makes a sign, but with stony eyes gazes at the poor victim, who blushes, stammers, becomes very much frightened, and at last sits down totally exhausted...
...degree; and that exception - oh, my country women, is from over the border, an English citizen. It is amusing to find also, that while some confess their delinquencies with contrition, there is a strong party which firmly defends slang on the ground of its wonderfully expressive qualities. One little word, of Lasell manufacture, consisting of but four letters, contains in its one short and suggestive syllable the entire idea of "being discovered and publicly and ignominiously reproved, by a member of the faculty, on the occasion of transgressing one of the regulations of the institution." Curiously enough, the adherents...
...familiar with the events of the foot ball season recently closed, a word or two might well be said now to the men who intend to try for the team next fall. The experience of the past few years has proved to a certainty that the part of the season which can be spared for training is too short to bring a man into anything like perfect condition for playing unless he returned to college in something above the average form. Formerly, as soon as the last game was played in the fall, the players were allowed to conduct themselves...
...Albany bootblack, when asked why he pronounced the word "either" as if it were spelled "ither" replied: "Well, the Harvard boys all say ither, and their style is good enough...