Word: alphabets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students have of deciding who shall pay for the oysters. Several students come in and sit down. One opens the book and all note what letter of the alphabet is the second in the second line from the top of the left-hand page. The book is passed to each student in turn, who cuts or opens to a new place. He who has the letter furthest down the alphabet from the letter A has to pay for the oysters...
...pupils, including a chapel, dormitories and laboratories. More than one thousand orphans are here instructed, fed, clothed and cared for in every particular by the various officers of the college. They are taken at the early age of six years, some of them ignorant of the alphabet, and are kept under "tutors and governors" for eight years; then if suitable places can be found are apprenticed to some trade. The design of the founder was to make practical men, hence classical training was neither enjoined nor forbidden in the will. The students, therefore, seem immature compared with those...
...certainty that some men would have the last place both years, but, according to the present arrangement, those who do not have the slight advantage of position in the Junior year have it in the Senior year. For those Juniors whose names fall in the first half of the alphabet, and consequently speak among the first this year, will by the same rule, next year, fall among those who speak in the middle of the evening; and those Juniors whose speeches are in the middle of the list will next year have the disadvantage of speaking...