Word: manifested
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...most flagrant sinners against the canons of good taste in pronunciation in college, I have distinguished three well-defined classes: the Western, the Southern, and the New England. The first two, while doing justice, as a general rule, to the vowel o, manifest a decided aversion to the broad a (as in father), with an inclination to make the r painfully distinct. Untrammelled by dictionaries, both pronounce such words as aunt, haunt, daunt, cant, etc., ant, hant, dant, cant, while half and laugh are emasculated into haff and laff. Iron, which authority allows us to charitably call iurn, is contorted...
...College Boat-Club, who not very long ago paid a visit of some duration to England, and studied the rowing of the University crews, after which he returned to America and put in successful practice what he had learnt in this country; and there can be no gainsaying the manifest superiority of the oarsmanship of Yale over that of any other amateur crew in the States. It is still capable of amelioration, and, as strength, muscle, and pluck are not wanting, Yale crews may be made even more formidable than they...
This course will not be given unless thirty persons manifest their desire to take it. The address of any person intending to take the course must be sent to JAMES W. HARRIS, Secretary, Cambridge, before October...
...present reports, and which shall give an opportunity for a fair, open discussion of the condition of the Association. I believe that we are still sufficiently selfish to care for our own comfort, and that as soon as we have an opportunity to look after that comfort, we should manifest the greatest interest in the welfare of the Association...
...some time a considerable lack of interest has been manifest at the meetings, owing to the frequent absence of members to whom parts have been assigned, and the consequent non-performance of the literary exercises. In fact, the original plan has to such an extent proved a failure, that the Club has become convinced of the necessity of some radical change in its methods of procedure, to insure that success which the enterprise deserves, and of which it is still believed capable. With this end in view, a committee appointed for the purpose have arranged for the delivery...