Word: moment
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...successful contestant in a one-mile walk there - Green of Harvard - is thus described, in the moment of his hard-earned victory (N. Y. Times, July 16): 'He hurried down the lane to the string, which he reached, pale and exhausted, unable to stand still, and finally staggered into friendly arms outstretched to receive him.' Pitiful! very pitiful! Could any surer mode be invented of making a youth inevitably second-rate in mental, not to say moral, force, all the rest of his life? . . . . The new exercises for undergraduates serve to increase their natural centrifugal tendency to fly away from...
...with much hesitation that the writer introduces once more into the columns of a college paper a subject so ancient and threadbare as the college goody. But he begs the reader to restrain his indignation for a moment, when he shall learn that the only reason for the writer's presumption is a laudable desire that this article may be the last upon the subject, and because after profound meditation he has hit upon a plan at once simple and effective for making the goody of to-day a thing of the past, and the goody of to-morrow...
Especially prominent is the crack whistler of the entry, who displays his musical tastes from the moment he enters the building until he slams his door, three flights up. His performance of the "Inman March" is something electrifying. Of late he has bestowed his energies on the funeral dirge in "Round the World in Eighty Days," and has brought it to such a state of perfection that one almost expects to see the Amazons, et catera, coming up the stairs. His audience fondly trust that some other equally classical air may soon take the place of this...
...subscription-list of the University crew at the present moment makes a good showing. The payment of the subscriptions already made is, however, very much desired, as the end of the college year is at hand. Theatricals are soon to be given to increase the fund; in Boston, beginning next Thursday evening, and in New York, a week from next Monday. The last theatricals in aid of the crew did not bring a large sum into the treasury of the H. U. B. C.; we hope in this respect the next ones will be more successful...
...Pastolus comes from Seminary Hill, Montpelier, Vt., and informs us that "who will be our next President is a question of the greatest moment." We find valuable information concerning some of the Presidential candidates, and we learn that "the time for the Grand Centennial Exposition is drawing near." Finally, this humble statement: "If you wish for facts we would refer you to future numbers of the Pastolus." But much as we desire "facts," we must decline to exchange with the oracle of Seminary Hill...