Word: gossip
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...point." We are pleased with the Courant's editorials, but we cannot literally return the compliment, for they certainly are not short, - they cover nearly twelve pages. But who could be so unreasonable as to expect short editorials from lady editors? They are well written, entertaining, and full of gossip Another feminine feature of the Courant is the publication of the marriage of graduates of Abbott Academy. Proud, happy graduates...
...amusing to look over the accounts of Class Day that appeared in the Boston papers the next morning. One paper says that "nearly every one had invitations to more than one of these [spreads], and there was a constant passing to and fro, with a lively interchange of gossip and badinage, which was entered into with zest by both hosts and guests." We are told in another place that "there was the usual rush for the flowers, in which nearly every one received some blossoms, while not a few came off with bruises, which sent them limping off for liniments...
...have become accustomed to the inaccurate reports of our College matters in Boston papers, and have long since given up complaining about the "Harvard Gossip" furnished by the correspondent of the Saturday Evening Gazette; but when one reads, in the Transcript, an editorial devoted to proving that Harvard students are "social roughs," it is time that something was said in our defence...
...will speak separately. The first consists of societies which have some serious object in view, which may be roughly described as the pursuit of Cape Flyaway; the second of open societies, which are devoted to amusement; the third of clubs proper, where you can get wine and cigars and gossip of the most correct sort at the cheapest price; and the fourth of secret societies, of which the objects are unknown and the names are forbidden words...
...opposed to any such innovation. The experiment of the co-education of the sexes is not at all likely ever to be tried at Harvard. The Boston papers have a habit of inserting - some of them occasionally and others regularly - items of news under such headings as "Harvard University Gossip," "College Notes," and so forth, most of which are either strictly personal or else entirely false. If we might make a suggestion to such exalted directors of public opinion, we would request them to confine their items to occurrences at the police-stations and court-rooms, in which, no doubt...