Word: dashed
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...FRESHMAN sends us a remarkably witty little poem, ridiculing the Darwinian theory. It is represented as having been "dashed off" in an afternoon. Any professional copyist might have "dashed it off" in less time. It is comparatively easy to "dash off" other people's poetry. We hereby "dash off" this Freshman's name from our list of contributors...
...second, and by far stronger, reason why people overestimate the jollity and dash of Cambridge life, is the fact that students themselves often indulge in descriptions of such marvellous adventures of the Freshman and Sophomore years that the credulous are struck with admiration and the timid with fear. An instance of this was brought to our notice last summer while visiting at a little country town in Pennsylvania, where, at a single evening gathering, we obtained more information about college jokes and scrapes than had come to us during a two years' previous residence at Cambridge. The reason of this...
This man is held up to us as one influenced to a remarkable extent by the famoe sacra fames. Notoriety he thirsted for, and notoriety he certainly gained. Without doubt, he is the shining example of that trait so graphically expressed in the vulgate by the term "cutting a dash." But was he alone in this? Is it not possible that there is something of the same tendency in ourselves? Of course I do not claim that it is developed in any of us to the same degree it was in that representative man, for the very good reason that...