Word: real
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have such opportunities brought to our own door, and we sincerely hope that a considerable number of men will take advantage of them. There have been frequent calls for more lectures this year, and it now remains for men to show by their attendance that there is a real demand for them felt in the College. We feel convinced that no one who attends will feel that he has wasted his time. Professor Child and Mr. Perry have certainly shown a disinterested desire to afford us all the advantages in their power by offering to give these lectures...
...unsuccessful. It now rests with the classes to say whether the new system shall succeed, and we hope that they will at once take steps to elect captains, and put crews in training. The prize colors will be placed in the new Gymnasium, and the cups will be of real value. As the Freshman class already has a crew in training, and as quite a number of men from the other classes are training for the 'Varsity, there ought to be no difficulty in getting together four good eights...
...Bessie, for a woman who crimps her hair and looks awfully superficial, you can occasionally evince an uncommon amount of practical wisdom." There 's the Senior, experienced in the real value of the fair sex, and determined every one shall know that he, too, sees the good so often hidden from the world by the crimps...
...college room has been trebled, and tells his boys that they must go to some cheap college in the country, - if indeed he is able to send them to any. Stronger cases than this might be easily adduced. The merchant who is struggling to avoid bankruptcy, the holder of real estate whose value has sunk below the mortgage, cannot enter the academic confessional and make known their griefs. The adjective poor as applied to those who seek the higher education has only a relative significance, - they are not generally in want of food or shelter. Bearing this in mind...
...crew and played at base-ball and foot-ball. First they sang a piece called "The Three Glasses," and it was perfectly lovely, and we all applauded so much that they had to give an encore. And then came several glees. But most of all I liked the real college songs. "Seeing Nellie Home" was so sweet, and the gentleman who sang it had such a delightful tenor voice. O, I do love a tenor voice! At "Jingle Bells." my feet would beat time in spite of me, and "Sally am de Gal for me" with its banjo accompaniment...