Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...among the members of the Medical School. They certainly have a good battery to start with, in Nichols and Bremner of Yale. It would be a good thing for the 'Varsity nine if such a scheme were carried out. Practice games could be played with the nine after the fashion of the Yale consolidated nine...
...evening performance began at half-past eight o'clock, as the time advertised for beginning was 8.15 p.m. - thus allowing a decent delay for Fashion's sake. The Assembly Rooms were crowded at 8 o'clock and the vast audience were seated on the tiptoe of expectation, as may be said, waiting to learn the legend of the play...
None of the accessory causes mentioned in the second lecture are as important in the development of art from the early archaic conventionalities as the influence of athletic games. The canons of form they produced have fashioned the feeling for form and proportion ever since. The reason of its widespread influence is that Greek art was at the same realistic and identical. Before art can gain universal validity it must pass through nature and rise higher than the reality from which it is conceived, and this is what happened in Greece. The influence of the athletic games can hardly...
...forty minutes. At the last topic the talkers usually stop and for the ten minutes that remain of the hour, their neighbors enjoy a long wished quiet. Meanwhile how do the lecturer's word reach the unfortunate men who sit near those I have described. Something in this fashion: - "Let me give you an example of metornymy, he is certain to get on the crew. Care should be taken in the use of personification, and - in stringing your banjo. I think you will easily see that the writers purpose has been defeated - in three rounds. Personification often lends picturesqueness...
...stated that the Princeton faculty have under consideration the advisability of changing Princeton College into a university after the fashion set by Yale. One of the strongest arguments in favor of the proposed change is the ease with which it can be accomplished...