Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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These actions on the part of the "Reporters and Loafers" were beginning to fret and irritate the crew, - a serious matter in training, when the crew should feel in first-rate spirits, and should be kept free from every annoyance that can possibly be avoided...
...urged or compelled him to join the classes of that professor whose partisans they were, - a proceeding which reminds one of the way which the Yale students take to recruit their Freshman societies. The factions often came to blows over the merits of rival instructors, but the most serious rows were between town and gown, - for the students of "the fair metropolis of the world of mind" then strove with as much eagerness as the students of the metropolis of America now strive to make their occupation known by the distinctive academic dress...
...Sheldon, the Chorister of the Institute, enlivened the more serious part of the repast with well-chosen songs, interspersed with delightful frequency...
...Record. We had no intentions of interfering in a family quarrel, - that is, a family joke. We hope the Courant's ungallant remarks on "wanton exhibitions of feminine levity and frivolity" (i. e. young ladies' talking in the Library) are also a joke but they sound rather too serious to be quite polite...
...Club, given last evening in Boston, at Union Hall, by the Sophomores, were among the best of their kind. The hesitations and accidents were unusually few, and, except the decapitation of a war-steed, at which critical moment the presence of mind of Sir Guy saved the day, no serious casualty occurred. Mr. Urquhart made a very pretty girl, and Mr. Wright an imposing queen. Darnley's part was played gracefully and well, and that of the rollicking King of the French admirably taken; and in fact, all did so well that to particularize would be unjust. The airs were...