Word: hideously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sickening. There are certain papers in Boston which seem to make a business of filling up their columns with false trash about Harvard whenever they are hard up for stuff. People easily believe sensational stories about the college. particularly when little occurrences are made to assume the proportions of hideous crimes. The thing has ceased to be a joke and is fast becoming a downright nuisance...
...they make pedestrianism on the path to the library an exceedingly dangerous undertaking by swooping down the hill on their bobsleighs and barrel-staves. They come, too, in such rapid succession that it requires skill and coolness to dodge them. Added to this, they make day and night hideous with their hoots and yells, and must be extremely unpleasant neighbors to the inmates of Dr. Peabody's and President Eliot's houses. Why we should be called upon to tolerate such unmitigated nuisances right in our midst is rather difficult of comprehension. We appeal to those who have authority...
...looked upon for a long time. At the entrance to the gymnasium the members of the team were cheered long and lustily. In the evening a celebration was held in honor of our victory, and bonfires, roman candles, fire-crackers and skyrockets (not the Princeton cheer) made night hideous for a short time. The general enthusiasm, however, was considerably dampened by the unfortunate accident to Captain Holden, to whose energy and patience Harvard men, individually and collectively, owe so much...
...college year; obviously to keep men in Cambridge to the utmost end of the term - why, oh, why should this be? The editorial mind confesses to entertaining in its simplicity the opinion that undergraduates who finish their examinations earliest might better go home to loaf than make life doubly hideous with the revelry of their rejoicing for the unlucky wretch whose examinations are packed into the last few days...
...just at this time some such reference seems absolutely necessary perhaps for the benefit of freshmen if of no one else. There is a certain class of men in college who seem to think that simply because they may have passed an examination, they are justified in making life hideous for a day or two to the poor unfortunates who are their neighbors, and who are still grinding for their own examinations. They play the piano, dance, sing, or rather howl, and render themselves generally obnoxious...