Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Evidently the usage did not long continue, for such a service has not been held within the memory of the present College generation. The tercentenary celebration two years ago brought the life and services of the great benefactor before the public as well as the University in most complete fashion, but that too will soon have passed beyond any but occasional recollection...
There is no university in the country in which provision is made in more thorough and thoughtful fashion for the religious welfare of the student body. But it is in full accord with the principles and spirit of Harvard that it is left to the students themselves to decide, each man for himself, in what measure he will avail himself, in what measure he will avail himself of the provision which is thus made. Nothing is more obvious than that large numbers of students, who by no means lack sympathy with religion and who would acknowledge their own need...
...beginning of a man's college career he is faced with a situation of great difficulty. If he wishes to take things with comparative ease,--and in most cases he does,--he decides on the regular four years' course and gets his degree in the approved fashion. If he is a good athlete he nearly always takes this course, chiefly through compulsion, because under the present objectionable rule he will not be allowed to play on the University teams if he is registered in one of the graduate departments. The other alternative open to the undergraduate is to go through...
...article, on "Student Guiding at Harvard," finally extracts a good point from a somewhat tedious mass of semi-jocose narrative. The article on "Stevenson at Cockermouth" is distinctly below the literary standard of the Monthly, as it is not clearly about anything, and uses words in a highly erratic fashion. Whether the writer or the editor is responsible for "flys," on page 63, it is certainly not a form to be commended...
...better than it has before this week, although Sargent was not up to his usual standard this afternoon. In the morning after some tubbing work for Fish and Sargent, Wray went out in his single with the University eight-oared crew and covered a couple of miles in easy fashion...