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Word: fashion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...whether he does so by permission of the Faculty; as even the respectable Advocate's request to be allowed its use was refused. But Mr. King is not the only offender, for an enterprising restaurateur in town has sent invitations to all the undergraduates, which read somewhat in this fashion : "Christo et Ecclesiae. Serve Mr. -, and give him a discount of fifteen per cent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

Having made this assumption, we then attempted to show in a few words that we had not much good music here, using Yale and Amherst, where music is generally acknowledged to be good, as standards of comparison, not as places setting a fashion that it might be well to adopt at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "MUSIC AT HARVARD." | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

...foot-ball team are trying to set the fashion of wearing "Bangles." We wish them success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

...languages, but we have none for them combined. These courses for honors in languages seem to aim chiefly at memorizing a vast number of words, rather than becoming familiar with the thoughts of the men who used these words as vehicles. It is too much like the school-boy fashion of memorizing the words of two hundred lines per day of the sublimest passages in Virgil, too much like what the poet Juvenal speaks of, who recited his verses standing on one foot. Such dexterity at the expense of profundity is of little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEMPORA MUTANTUR, NOS ET IN ILLIS. | 9/27/1877 | See Source »

...place. But Neophogen is not Boston. At Neophogen Buoy was the best obtainable, and a useful man to know - I do not think I need say any more on the score of acquaintances. Only keep this simple rule in mind: if you desire to be a man of fashion, do not neglect the Buoys and the Stickers of society wherever you happen to meet them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO A FRESHMAN AT NEOPHOGEN. | 2/9/1877 | See Source »

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