Search Details

Word: somethinging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Again we must emphasize the complaint, so often made, that men using the library, and especially those who draw books, are guilty of the grossest carelessness. And word has recently come to us from Mr. Winsor, the librarian, which seems to imply that this carelessness, presumably by processes of evolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/11/1885 | See Source »

With all its peculiarities, American college journalism mirrors with surprising truthfulness the states of feeling, we had almost said the degrees of civilization, prevailing in the several parts of our broad land, The critical reader will easily detect differences in the tone of the kindred publications of our eastern colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 12/7/1885 | See Source »

The remarks in the above are exceedingly suggestive. There are at least two elements in Harvard life, one corresponding to the mind, the other to the body, Harvard intellectual and Harvard athletic. But for the time at least Harvard athletic has more "fame" than Harvard intellectual; the athletes seem to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Study and Athletics. | 12/7/1885 | See Source »

A certain class wins renown on the field and on the water. It is graduated. And as its athletic glory fades away it wins for itself the glory that is more lasting, for greatness and nobility and genius. Men formerly thought "indifferent," become men of strength and opinion. The hitherto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Study and Athletics. | 12/7/1885 | See Source »

Journalistic courtesy: "There is a High School or Grammar School located at Wayback, Somewhere County, at which is published a paper called, if we mistake not, the Lehigh Chestnut or Burr, or something. We laugh a sad smile when we see these infantic sheets that originate in some back woods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/5/1885 | See Source »