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...must ford - of additional dormitories, of a better class of goodies - the hiring of whom with the present pittance for wages is, we confess, well high impossible, and of the correction of all other inconveniences, which in the absence of real evils we amuse ourselves by rehearsing? Yea, verily, the long-needed and now-obtained bulletin boards testify to a supervisory eye in this college...
...therefore borne for a year the proud title of "Beer King" of Heidelberg? Tobacco, too, must claim its due share of our attention. This roof above us is high, the hall is vast, the space seems limitless. Is it possible for us to fill it all with tobacco smoke? Yea, verily: or ever the morrow's sun. shall rise this vast space shall be packed with dense smoke as with a tangible substance, so that from the flattest-sprawled student beneath a table to the stray bird that seeks an outlet from the highest pane above, each pair of lungs...
...more illustrious and more sedate of the company steal quietly away to home and bed; but they are not missed. Songs are being roared out at the top of stentorian lungs. Most of the students are, of course, German; but there are enough from England, America, Switzerland, Egypt, yea and Japan, to give a cosmopolitan flavor to the gathering. "The Watch on the Rhine," "God Save the Queen," and "Hail Columbia" are all roared out together in amiable discord. Some student conceives the gay notion of beating time on the table with his beer mug. The happy idea is infectious...
...last but not least of all the many devices in use, is the broken chair. There are many of this class; yea their name is legion. Some of them are patriarchs in which sat the professors of old; some of them are goody's chairs, rickety with many years of window-washing; some are quaintly covered with the initials of great men gone before, and all are on their last two or three legs. These chairs give rise to many amusing incidents which enliven the otherwise weary round of lecture-going. Now and then they give way all at once...
...scale, can any one observe the enervated and demoralized state of the average foreigner, after a short struggle with our tongue, without feeling what a terrible thing this language is? No remarks need be made about "ye student and his theme," for they always speak loudly for themselves, yea even profanely sometimes...