Word: womanhood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...teachers are all Southern in sentiment, and, with the exception of those born in Europe, were born and reared in the South. Believing the Southern to be the highest type of civilization this continent has seen, the young ladies are trained according to the Southern ideas of delicacy, refinement, womanhood, religion and propriety; hence we offer a first-class female college for the South, and solicit Southern patronage...
...want to make believe that I am too naive or goody-goody, but surely something must be the matter when the Miscellany says: "It seems inconceivable that any girl who has breathed the atmosphere of Vassar College for more than a year could so forget her womanhood. We do not wish to believe that even in the ranks of the Preps., among whom the reported author is found, could exist a student so disloyal to the college, so untrue to all her better instincts. If it is true, it is a truth to make one blush for her sex." Just...
...important, youth ceases to be youth and loses all the characteristics of impulsiveness and fire that make it youth, then perhaps this good, kind preacher may tell us that we would be better, purer and more fitted to wear the augelic wings if we would only let "exalting, refining womanhood stand by our side to aid us in our weak moments," to use his own language, but he must remember that the millenium is not yet here...
...enterprise that Mr. Moses King exhibited in publishing the Harvard Register is beginning to show itself in his book publishing business. Besides several little brochures recently issued, Mr. King has just published a book by a Cambridge man, Rev. Franklin Johnson, on "True Womanhood," in excellent style. Mr. King's new and enlarged edition of "Harvard and its Surroundings" cannot be issued for two months yet, owing to the delay in securing new views of the college buildings. Mr. King intends soon to compete with the present Cambridge dealers by opening a stock of books and stationery at his present...
...pwayed in Oedipus-ah lawst yeah. What did he play? He pwayed the curtains up awnd down-ah. Joke ah! Ha-ha-ah? What makes him part his hair in the middle? Only a step-ah in the cawse of his development-ah. Development into what? Into womanhood-ah. Another joke ah, be Jove-ah. By-the-way, what does he think of Emerson's idea of the non-combustibility of modern agnosticism? My deah fellah, he has not the slightest ideah. Fact-ah. Joke-ah, number thwee. Jerusalem, you are pwessing mattahs too fah. At Hawvawd we feel...