Word: adieu
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...becomes our duty to bid adieu to the senior board. As each succeeding year passes by the same duty has to be performed, and it is not a pleasant one. Though the eighty-eight board was sadly reduced in numbers, yet they made up in quality what they lacked in quantity. The CRIMSON is better this year than ever before; and the improvement is mainly due to the men who have worked so faithfully on the paper through most of their college course and who have just left us. Fulsome praise is ever out of place and sounds conimonplace...
...perfect repose and rest of mind. The janitor making the fires at 4 A. M., the click of the letter box in the early morning, and the peripatetic student overhead, who studies by the lap, are minor and soothing noises." We thank Snodkins for his courtesy; rise, bid him adieu, and leave the room just in time to hear a party of six or eight go tearing through the hall, and down the stairs, four steps at a time, yelling at the top of their lungs. "Stop," says Snodkins, thrusting his head out of the door, "that's the worst...
...Henschel's song, "Adieu de l'hotesse Arabe," proved a charming composition as sung by Mrs. Henschel. It was warmly received. It is the best composition we have heard of Mr. Henschel's and shows a great improvement in his technique composition; it warrants the expectation of works of decided merit from his hand...
...Adieu! my dear." (He leaves.) She : "Yes; he's adisud...
...quite willing to stop there, as I had become thoroughly convinced that there were other modes of transit, less rapid, perhaps, but quite as agreeable as sliding across a rough floor on the bridge of one's nose. The ordinary Sophomore would, at this point, have bid a tearful adieu to so questionable a form of amusement, court-plastered his nose, and forthwith presented at No. 5 a petition to be excused from giving any further attention to college duties, except tennis and the Greek play...