Word: motley
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inference must a student draw who comes to you saturated with Emerson, lovingly familiar with Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes and Lowell, knowing Irving and Hawthorne by heart, ready to write essays by the score on Cooper, Sylvester Judd and Brockden Brown, or to discuss the works of Paulding, Poe, Prescott, Motley, Park man, and the rest, but who, for lack of familiarity with Scott, must fail in his examination? Is Scott, then, the one writer of fiction whose works an American boy should read? Is there nothing in American literature that should command his attention? Is it your purpose to teach...
...Princetonian has been afflicted this term with a motley troop of loafers in the editorial rooms, especially on the evening before going to press. Popularity is no doubt a desirable thing to any college organ, but the old adage of familiarity still holds there nevertheless. We have not the least objections to anybody coming into the rooms to consult exchanges and to look up special points of interest, but to use our sanctum all day long as a general rendezvous, which we are sorry to say, has been done by several men, is a little more than can consistently...
...CRIMSON is thankful that it is burdened by no such "motley troop," hindering its labors...
Recitations and lectures were held from eight o'clock in the morning until four in the afternoon, three years being the original undergraduate course. The scriptures were carefully studied, and the ancient languages, Chaldee, Syriac, Greek and Latin, formed a large part of the curriculum. Besides this motley array of languages, mathematics, physics, astronomy, politics, ethics, logic, style, imitation, epitome and declamation were required branches. History formed a part of the regular work in winter, and was superseded by botany in the summer months. One cannot help being amazed at the thought of this vast array of learning being crammed...
...ignorance in such a club, was made "Vice-Admiral," the commission of "Rear-Admiral," was granted to the laziest man, and the hero of oaths and profanity was decked with the gown of "Chaplain." With such men to lead them one can form a conception of what a motley crew the members of the Navy Club must have been...