Word: non
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...questionable dialect of Romany. It is true, as the writer claims, that the use of slang at Harvard is almost universal. To illustrate. Let us drop from the college vocabulary that long list of slang words and phrases beginning with the ubiquitous "chestnut" and ending with the non-committal "rot" and we at once appreciate the sphere which slang has come to assume in Harvard life. Our conversation would henceforth lose its elegance, its pungency, its accuracy. Yes, slang is prevalent at Harvard. It is in the class-room, the dormitory, on the field. You hear it on the river...
...criticism of the tone of the Monthly, which appears in another column, must be regarded as a criticism of the general tendency of college literary writing than of the governing policy of the board of editors. The columns of the Monthly are open to all, and the sine qua non is only literary excellence. If those who are dissatisfied with the dark stamp of the contents of the Monthly, will express more hopeful views in an attractive form, and with the requisite literary merit, we feel sure their productions will meet with an impartial judgment...
Some of the temperance men among the students assisted at the polls yesterday in distributing non-license tickets...
While the students of the college are quick to take advantage of the lectures given here by non-residents, and generally manage to attend the evening readings given by our own professors and instructors, there was an example of neglect on last Friday which calls for remark. One of the instructors in English kindly consented to give a four o'clock lecture on the subject of descriptive and narrative writing, to which were invited all members of the classes of '87 and '88. Of the five hundred men to whom this invitation was extended, barely thirty thought it worth their...
...signs of such a thing as playing in the yard. We have even seen a foot-ball man prevented by a member of the faculty from tossing a foot-ball in the air while crossing the yard. This rule, however, does not seem to apply to the Cambridge non-collegiate youths who assemble daily on the avenue in front of the library and play "polo" to the great inconvenience of all who have to cross the yard. Consistency has never been a strong point of the faculty, but here at last is a chance for them to shine forth...