Word: polish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last year of college life serves to fix the mental activity of the coming graduate more than any other of the four undergraduate years. It is, therefore, highly important that a selection of senior courses should include those which, at the same time that they instruct, serve also to polish the student's education. Such courses are pre-eminently those which are stamped with the individuality of the instructor, and which, therefore, are most likely to come under the head of advanced electives. Take, for the sake of an example, Philosophy 4 and Fine Arts 4, courses the life...
...Besides the various editions in English adapted to North and South America, it contains editions in French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian-Danish, Dutch, Bohemian, and Welsh; also specimen pages of the pamphlets issued by the firm in eleven other languages, including Italian, Finnish, Turkish, Armenian, Bulgarian, Polish, Hawaiian, Gujarati (India), Burmese, and Chinese...
...only word that can be said in disparagement of the programme was its extreme length. This is a characteristic fault with the Music Hall programmes and so we must expect the same in Cambridge. From a technical standpoint the concert was, as usual, delightful. The coloring, rhythm, and polish displayed by the orchestra were faultless. The first number on the programme was Schubert's overture in E minor, a new work to Cambridge people. The work is not particularly interesting as it lacks in orginality of thought and expression. Even Schubert's great melodic power seems wanting in this piece...
...little claim to literary beauty. Quite different from this is "Acheron," a pretty simile in graceful, poetic language. The writer of "Ce Qu 'On Dit Et La Verite" shows considerable imagination and writes in a lively, entertaining style, which would be none the worse for a little more polish and elegance. The dated-letter or journal-method of telling a story is a device which is beginning to pall on readers of modern fiction. It is too frequently a convenient loop-hole for writers who have not the talent, or else wish to avoid the trouble of describing the closer...
...manner worthy of the recognition which they received. To compare the speaking of last evening with that of last year would be difficult and without reason. Each contest posseses its peculiarities and will, so long as the speakers adopt entirely different methods. But one thing certainly is evident, - that polish is not deemed equivalent to intelligent interpretation...