Word: informality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...understand to what he refers when he says that the vote was due to a misunderstanding and that it is not yet settled. To what vote does he refer, and why has it not yet been settled? Perhaps he will have the kindness in some future communication to inform one who wants...
...assaulted by eight boys all anxious to dispose of a Record. As a student approaches the hall he encounters several boys who act as skirmishers, and if he gets past them he is met by the main body of boys who rush at him with a howl and inform him of the sole reliableness of the paper which happens to comprise the greater part of their stock. The boys seem to think that students come to the hall to amuse them and that it was built for their especial play-ground...
...jostling, almost make us fancy that we are in a railroad station. Sometimes the student actually has to shove his way through the crowd, while the boys are thrusting papers in his very face, as if he were escaping from a swarm of hackmen. Will not some one inform these irrepressible youngsters that there must be better order and less noise...
...slope. If these innocent children had any conception of the danger they occasion the college "grind," they would immediately desert this well-worn slide and turn the prows of their sleds toward the side of the hill that slopes down to Harvard Street. Will not some authorized person inform these little sinners of the inceptive crimes they commit every...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Gentlemen: "John Donne's" attack on Professor Hill makes it worth while to inform new-comers of one or two facts. Fifteen years ago there was no English Department here Professor Child offered several elective courses, I believe, but burdened as he was with themes, could not give the college the full benefit of his scholarship; beside Professor Child there were one or two transient instructors in Rhetoric - transient because at that time the attitude of students toward the study of their own language left little hope in life for the man who undertook to teach them...