Word: glamour
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Then, too, such a system would bring a number of preparatory scholars here during commencement week, and the glamour of that delightful period would have its effect on their youthful imaginations. Princeton then is beautiful in the "high tide of June," full of fair visitors, rich with birds and blossems, and with never a hint of the bleak, rainy season of the winter months, nor of the steady grind of second term...
...possess any of the characteristics of so-called true poetry. The undergraduate poet rhapsodizes over a ditch bordered by hummocks of meadow-grass and clumps of scrubby, unsightly bushes; he goes into ecstasies over a frog-pond in a cow pasture; he personifies familiar objects; invests them with a glamour of brilliant colors, and imagines various noble fancies about them, or draws high lessons from their imagined actions or feelings, - what more does the true poet? In short, in criticising poetry it is hard to say just where sentiment leaves off, and sentimentalism begins. Many pieces that, appearing under famous...
This name gives a kind of glamour to the place which is irresistible to the Freshman. He looks upon Mr. Sever with no less awe and affection than on the Registrar himself. He considers it a privilege to buy books at a store sanctioned by the Faculty of his dear College, and pays for his Chauvenet and Horace with no thought or wish that there might be better bargains. If not before the end of his first year, then surely at the beginning of the second, he awakes to the knowledge that he is paying exorbitant prices. He looks around...