Word: write
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perfectly legitimate practice, as to be looked upon as a very light offence. We refer to the habit of "cribbing." That a man should have so little sense of honor as to deliberately copy sentence after sentence from a book, or degrade another man by hiring him to write his theme, indicates a code of morals which is difficult to understand. At last a man has been detected in this practice, and it is said, has been expelled from the University. While it is far from the wishes of the CRIMSON to try in any way to palliate the offence...
Will contain serial stories by Charles Egbert Craddock, author of "The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains," "In the Tennessee Mountains," etc. Henry James, "The Princess Casomassina" will continue until August, 1886. William H. Bishop, author of "The House of a Merchant Prince." James Russell Lowell will write for the Atlantic Monthly for 1886. John Fiske will contribute papers on United States History. Philip Gilbert Hamerton will furnish a series of articles comparing French and English people, character, opinions, customs, etc. Thomas Bailey Aldrich will contribute some short stories...
...examination rooms could be attended by no danger. We believe that these opportunities given by a few of the professors, will do much to convince the higher powers that such a sentiments is felt by all manly students, and we call on every student who is allowed to write a blue book in an examination where there are no proctors, to feel that an opportunity is given him to show what a student should be, and thereby to demonstrate the feasibility of a general abolition of this sign of depravity, this relic of distrust in a student's honor that...
...obliged to peruse his "unabridged" on the slightest occasion, and who cannot write half a page without looking up a dozen words, may read the following with every feeling of satisfaction and pleasure. A recent essay on the subject of spelling and reading English gives voice to some rather remarkable opinions, a consideration of which it was thought would be interesting, especially to the class of men spoken of above...
...Grammar School located at Wayback, Somewhere County, at which is published a paper called, if we mistake not, the Lehigh Chestnut or Burr, or something. We laugh a sad smile when we see these infantic sheets that originate in some back woods town strain themselves in an attempt to write an opinion." - Acta Columbiana...