Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fallen off to less than the number requisite for a nine with its substitutes. The captain is notoriously negligent of his duties. The work required for training, consisting of hand-ball and exercises on the chest-weights and dumb bells, is gone through in a half-hearted, desultory fashion, which precludes the possibility of any good resulting there from. The captain himself, whose duty it is to be always present and to direct the gymnasium work, frequently absents himself. If he has not the time to undertake the task of overseeing the training, some other man ought to be appointed...
...prospects for a nine seem to have become current, and one much too favorable to her. There is good material here and Capt. Wagenhurst will do all in his power to develop a first-class nine, but now that the men have gotten down to work after a certain fashion, our prospects seem hardly so good as they did when it was only a matter of conjecture who would try for the team. Mercur, '88, will probably pitch, with King, '89, as change pitcher, though some think King will show up in better form than Mercur. Who will catch...
...Walt Whitman and his Philosophy" is decidedly, with the exception of the last mentioned, the most interesting essay in the number. It was for some time the fashion to bring up young men either to consider Walt Whitman as a harmless crank or not to consider him at all. Lately, as we all know, public interest has been aroused in the man, and then, naturally, in his poetry. It seems to me that the writer is a little too enthusiastic over his subject; that a poet whose work requires such a deliberate course of study and investigation before...
...Cambridge people, knowing this, can avoid encountering the men if they wish. But it cannot be very pleasant for these long-suffering people to have some fifteen or twenty men come thundering along behind them on any of the other streets of Cambridge; especially as it is now the fashion to wear strictly gymnasium costumes regardless of appearances. We have rights, but so have the citizens of Cambridge. Let us respect them...
Hour examinations are now in vogue. These irritations, more disagreeable than their semi-annual prototypes, have grown in fashion during this year and now bid fair to become a characteristic of all the larger and many of the less numerous courses. These examinations are out of accord with the tendency of study at Harvard, and mark retrogression to the days of term examinations and required studies. Many lazy ones are caught in the trap, but we fail to see what good accrues to them by the operation, while for those who are working earnestly a deviation from good work...