Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...often bad and the atmosphere toward the end of the hours generally grows so close and hot that it is very uncomfortable for hose dining there. It has been found impracticable to open many of the upper windows because the draft causes the gas to flare in such a fashion that the walls are in danger of being considerably blackened. We understand that the Board of Directors are making efforts to remedy this trouble and we trust that they will be able to do so, and that in short time, for it is a serious discomfort to members...
...arrangements for the Harvard-Yale debate are being completed in a most satisfactory fashion and there is every reason to expect that the debate will meet with good success. The introduction of judges will add a much greater interest to the debate, for it will then be more of an actual contest. The managers of the debate have shown good judgement in appealing to the support of graduate classes and it is pleasing to note the interest which graduates have evinced in the matter. The proposition to limit the competitors for the next debate to members of the Union...
...some half dozen clubs of several years standing and this year others, such as one to be called the Deutscher Verein have been added. They will give the Annex a stronger touch of college life; and anything which will tend to bring the students more closely together in this fashion should be encouraged, for the present nature of the Annex gives them no experience of college life, of living in dormitories, dining in the same hall and many other advantages which add so much to college life. This side of college life which Vassar and Smith and the other colleges...
...freshmen evidently expected to win hands down, and began their play in a desultory fashion with smiles on their faces. This accounts for the touchdown that was made by Worcester within five minutes after play had begun, without the freshmen being able to stop them at all. It is a notorious fact that over - confidence has lost many a game, and the freshmen yesterday would have been no exception to the rule, if Worcester had been able to keep up its strong rushes...
...student or call for any special research. What we ask for is a simple elementary course, adapted to a man knowing little or nothing of the universe about him and beyond our own world, a course, as we have said, that will treat of the heavens in the same fashion that Geology IV treats of the earth, a course, in short, that will be "popular" in the sense that it is general and simple and not scientifically specific...