Word: expressionism
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Snodkins-unhappy wight, to whom are attributed all the sins of dry-brained wits-is credited with the criticism on our college papers of the present day, that no great names are now found among their editors, as of yore. Snodkins "points with pride" to the long list of college...
"College boys are so full of mischief that they ought to be spoken to. We shall put some of them in the "Drawer" and shut them up. It has just come to our knowledge that the learned and distinguished president of one of our colleges has been made the victim...
The following, from the New York Independent, puts Oscar in his true light : "Mrs. Julia Ward Howe really seems very naive in her expression that as `the representatives of tender hope and divine compassion,' women can properly associate with and patronize Oscar Wilde. 'Tender hope and divine compassion' are not...
The motto of Our Continent, "In that new world which is the old," from Tennyson's "Day Dream," is a good illustration of a quotation misquoted in an entirely different sense from the meaning of the expression in the original.
It is not difficult to understand the public sentiment in the matter of college hazings, "rushes" and other misdeeds. It is, perhaps, naturally expected that the college student, with his superior training and advantages, will behave with more decorum, and exhibit more "respectability," than other members of the community, due...