Word: flavored
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college catalogue in search of "snaps." And right here, it would be well to take a glance at the whole History department. In most of the courses the system of collateral reading is in vogue and with what result! The knowledge gained from such reading has a certain delicious flavor of uncertainty that shows only too well how desultory such a process of work is. In History 13, however, the instructor has given us a system whereby we can get at the sense of the question without being compelled to wade through pages of unimportant or irrelevant matter. It would...
...company steal quietly away to home and bed; but they are not missed. Songs are being roared out at the top of stentorian lungs. Most of the students are, of course, German; but there are enough from England, America, Switzerland, Egypt, yea and Japan, to give a cosmopolitan flavor to the gathering. "The Watch on the Rhine," "God Save the Queen," and "Hail Columbia" are all roared out together in amiable discord. Some student conceives the gay notion of beating time on the table with his beer mug. The happy idea is infectious; and a thousand mugs thump ponderously upon...
Tuesday morning there was a short religious service in the Heiliggeistkirche, after which the present and former members of the university were addressed by the Crown Prince. His Royal Highness, a tall, full-bearded man of commanding presence, spoke at some length, and gave his speech quite a political flavor, referring not only to the university's glorious history, but to the especially important part which she had played in fostering a spirit of national unity and thus rendering possible the present imperial government, "which is now Germany's safeguard and strength." The Grand Duke of Baden, who is Rector...
...flavor with the essence of unmitigated gall...
...students of the University of Missouri, have a paper called Truth, of which we see it remarked that: "If it were crushed to earth, it would have its value as top-dressing." The editor writes with a far western flavor. To him the faculty of the university of Missouri are "cranks, idiots, sneaks, knaves and dead-beats." One of the female teachers is vividly alluded to as a "pop-eyed apparition," and the editor has recourse to poetry to describe one of the faculty...