Word: stanza
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...alas for the poor Editor! The Literary man was enraged because his article had been tampered with; the Athlete swore that his report was the only interesting thing in the paper; the Poet took arsenic because his choicest stanza had been left out; the Bummer looked in vain for his complaint about the janitors, and declared that the Editor was fawning on the Faculty; the Professor was disgusted with the complaints, and publicly reviled the paper at all his recitations; the Wit found that all the point of his article had been left out, and that his brevity jokes...
...members of the Class of '79 who can write verses are invited to prepare words for the Class Song, and to hand them to the chorister or to any member of the Class Committee on or before May 28. A stanza of six verses may be used, if preferred, but four verses are required...
MUTUAL admiration is all very well, and there is no possible objection to the Courant's complimenting the Yale Lit., only it is carrying the matter a step too far, to quote a stanza of a translation from Alfred de Musset, and criticise it (favorably) as original. Though translations are easy enough to write, we had noticed this in the Lit. as particularly good, and do not doubt that those who read it in the Courant, without knowing it to be merely a reproduction, will think it more remarkable than we did. The Courant speaks of another poem...
...Advocate says that "the following stanza (from the Ode at the Supper of the Class of'69), will serve as a model" for the Senior Class Song...
...wish to call to the notice of the Cornell Review, the Nassau Lit., and the Hamilton Literary Monthly, the stanza we quote this week from the Rugby Meteor. If they read this, and then ask themselves why they exist, we hope for the best result...