Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : I fully agree with your correspondent on the subject of the freshman nine, and also have a word of advice to offer. It is about the selection of the umpire. We all know how hard it is to get an unprejudiced umpire. Any man who takes this position is liable to favor one side or the other, even if he is not personally interested. Often a decision of the umpire wins of loses the game. It is, therefore, of the greatest importance to the freshman nine that they get an umpire in their Yale games...
...CONVERSATION: Its Faults and its Graces. Compiled by Rev. Andrew P. Peabody, D. D., LL. D." This little "Handbook of Conversation," by Dr. Peabody, comprises in four parts his "Address to Young Ladies," "Francis Trench on Conversation," "A Word to the Wise," and "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...
...committee for the Philological Society's dictionary have issued a third list of words (from allodial to apophysal), on which more quotations are desired. From this list it appears that, as far as now known, the word allopath was first used in 1842; alluvial in 1802; Americanism and anecdotal in 1870; anglican in 1827; analogue in 1816; antagonize in 1818; aplomb in 1849; anonymuncale in 1869, and antitheistic in 1881. It is announced that the dictionary will have 8,400 pages in 6 vol. 4 to., and that finally a supplement will appear with the letter Z, containing all words...
...prospects of the scheme. Officers were elected to an association which did not then exist. The audience who had gathered seemed unable to comprehend this, despite the laudable efforts of one or two gentleman who seemed desirous to impress upon them the previousness, if I may use the word, of such proceedings. I suggest that, hereafter, more careful consideration and prudence be displayed in the management of affairs...
Oberlin, the home of the truly good, finds time in the midst of its deadly strife with a corner drug store, to say a kind and cheering word for Eastern colleges. Now, is not the following from the Oberlin Review, really admirable and charitable? "Our Eastern exchanges are discussing the prejudice that exists in Western colleges against those in the East, and it becomes a question of interest to us whether it is not true that our notions of these Eastern institutions are not somewhat hazy, and whether we do not have an exaggerated idea of the freaks and follies...