Word: downs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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The facts are these: On Friday evening, the 2d inst., a party of about forty Freshmen visited the Boston Museum to see Evangeline. The witticisms of that extravaganza are only too familiar to the minds of theatre-goers, and they naturally succeeded in eliciting only groans from the ranks of...
CERTAINLY it is annoying to have proctors in squeaking boots walking up and down an examination-room. It is annoying, also, to have two proctors stand behind you and converse in tones so exquisitely modulated that you catch just half their conversation. But, great as these annoyances are, there is...
But it is by no means an easy thing to sit naturally and becomingly for one's likeness. When the photographer has arranged you to his satisfaction, and your head is pushed up against the iron rest, and you are trying to look interested in a nail on the wall...
Bancroft, at stroke, is inclined to use too much swing; but his shoulders and arms are much the best. Jacobs's stroke lacks vigor, particularly on the catch. He drops his hands badly at the end of the recover, - a fault which leads to a serious trick of clipping, when...
Being, therefore, much puzzled by the constant repetition of this word, I have taken some pains to discover what the average Harvard man thinks a university is, and I find his idea of it to be pretty much as follows: Strictly voluntary attendance at all college exercises is the most...