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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...girls. Nothing so surely keeps him out of mischief; nothing better helps him out if he has once fallen in. The importance, then, of securing for students who come from a distance some introduction to people living near the college can hardly be overestimated. I am informed, I may add, that some find such social life as introductions would bring in membership of the churches of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Social Life at Harvard. | 1/4/1887 | See Source »

...certain vigor about it that is attractive. The original form was Cor-Cor-Cor-nell! I yell! Cornell! but to this an addition is very frequently made to cause it to run Cor-Cor-Cor-nell! I yell - like - H-ll! Cor-nell! It is needless to add that the female members of the university prefer it as it stood originally. - Yale News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 12/20/1886 | See Source »

...add that I was a member of the first and worst sophomore class that Professor Hill ever taught; that as student, as tutor in Greek, and as instructor in English, I have watched the growth of the English Department from its very birth; and lastly, that I write this letter without either the approval or the knowledge of Professor Hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/10/1886 | See Source »

...splendid opportunity thus given to come in contact with men eminent in the outside world. The exercises in chapel tend to bring this about to a great extent, but an hour spent informally with these men in their rooms, is of infinitely greater pleasure and value. We would add, also, that this evening will be the last evening at hone with Dr. Brooks as the time of his pastorate here ends on the fifth. We have already been deprived of one of his "at homes" by the Thanksgiving vacation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/1/1886 | See Source »

...some-time students. Well known faces forgotten for a generation, will recall some happy incident of the former days. Who can doubt but that these meetings, these reminiscences will call forth such a burst of free, boyish sympathy, vivacity and emotion, as has never been seen before in Cambridge? Add to this the pathos of those memories and in truth to day would be the history of Harvard for half a century or more, if we could but have omniscience and overhear all the talk, interpret every look and expose all the passion of feeling which will surround us throughout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

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