Word: set
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...contrary, though he says there's no reason why Quiet, whom no one ever notices, should n't enjoy college; and we have a great many cliques, and very narrow ones. In each class there are one or two swell cliques, devoted to lawn-tennis and clothes; an athletic set, who spend hours in exercise of various sorts, and the rest of their time in feeling each other's muscles, and reading the "Spirit of the Times"; a studious crowd, to which no man is admitted whose average is n't over 85 per cent, and whose members think they...
...happens often, and I think it perfectly fair to extend to all your readers the benefit of my accidental discovery; or, rather, I should think it unfair not to do so. The disregard of conventionalities is probably not confined to resident graduates. I may also mention that a book set apart for English 6 was gone this morning, and can probably be accounted for in the same manner...
...does Harvard claim the "championship"? Would she assume the title even if it were her due? We sincerely trust not; in this country of "champion pie-eaters," "champion walkers," etc., etc., we should hope that no gentleman or set of gentlemen would aspire to be called "champion" anything. As we understand it, Harvard proposes to send her eight, as Columbia did her four last year, merely as a college enterprise, and, without any regard for "championships" or "representative" college crews, to try if either of the English colleges can do in 1879 what they succeeded in doing...
...able to get up as good a course of lectures. The chief difficulty, we know, is to get somebody to take hold of the matter, and we would suggest that some society, with the co-operation perhaps of one of the professors, follow the good example already set by the Natural History Society, and endeavor to give us an interesting course of lectures on general subjects...
...Argus complains of the "undignified scramble" which takes place in the chapel every morning as soon as "Amen" is pronounced from the pulpit. We were not surprised to hear of such a deplorable state of things at Yale, but Wesleyan ought to be able to set a better example...