Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...latter is divided into two divisions, - a philological and a mathematical. Instruction consists only in lectures, and attendance is not compulsory; neither prayers nor church attendance is considered a necessary part of a university education. In general, it may be said that Russian universities are modelled after the German fashion. The time of the course is not prescribed, although an attendance of at least four years is expected from a student...
...next event - two-hand vaulting - proved popular, and five men entered, - Messrs. W. Watson, '81, F. F. Sneathen, L. S., H. N. Fowler, '80, J. L. Paine, '81, and C. H. W. Foster, '81. The vaulting was in "fence" fashion, although the proportion of fence was somewhat meagre. The bar was first placed at 5 feet 3 inches, and raised three inches each time. All the men cleared it easily, until the height reached was 6 feet 3 inches, when Mr. Paine failed to get over. At the next peg Mr. Fowler dropped from the list, and as none...
...tried to fashion the mite of a frown...
...Packer Quarterly has an article on "A new kind of shopping" and a good deal to say about "fashion." O worldly Packer! Its articles are all bright and interesting. Why is it that the young ladies' papers all have such a simple and excellent style? Here is a line from the Packer's poem on the Beautiful...
...necessary four hundred and twenty subscriptions will be obtained in time to make all the arrangements. Perhaps the announcements were not made nor the subscription-lists opened soon enough. Whether this be so or not, there is something else to account for this failure: the concerts are no longer fashionable. We once thought fashion a word that the enlightened people of Cambridge carefully erased from their Webster's and Worcester's, but a residence of a few years here has made us wiser...