Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advocate; it does not meet my charges fairly and squarely in any particular, and, when considered carefully, is hardly worth a reply; but I will say this much to it. In my letter I deplored the fact that English literature was but taught in a fragmentary fashion here, although the fragments might be very highly polished; and F. W. K. will surely remember my words concerning Prof. Child. The stimulus towards reading, (and extensive reading), gained from connection with English 7 and 8, I have never before been aware of; but I am quite sure that even the theses which...
...have before us a collection of fourteen drawings by Mr. Van Schaick very much after the fashion of the drawings in "Life"; yet as a whole, more finished and pleasant. Each is accompanied by its scrap of conversation, which we read, of course, and then laugh at abstractedly as we look again at the drawing that has as much to do with anything else as the joke attached to it. It is strange that this society picture with its inane joke dangling below should be so popular. Yet "The Lorgnette" is better than the usual collection of the sort...
...McCosh admitted, though with some reluctance, that the fashion in which Princeton was treated, shortened his stay at Harvard. He refused to discuss the contents of the letter which had brought a prompt reply from Dr. Eliot, nor would he divulge the nature of that reply...
...competence sufficient to maintain him in his early years of struggle. Where would he begin? At the bottom of the ladder; in the common council, perhaps. There he would receive no remuneration. Nor as an alderman would he receive pay for his duties, at least, not in honorable fashion...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I confess that after all, we have heard about electing a systematic course of study, the elective pamphlet of '87 came as a blow in my face. Brackets have been employed and hours changed in the most reckless fashion. History 9 and English 6 given up, the hour of History 11 changed! I shall now be forced to elect Music 13 and other courses I know in advance to be worthless. True, I am only an individual, and it does not matter much to the college or the world if my education is spoiled...