Word: among
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...itself to every volume in the library, and with a sigh prepared to leave the building. A scraping on the stone steps, a flutter of dresses, and a party of three ladies entered. One was bewitchingly pretty, petite, fascinating, - Cambridge was no longer dull. She seemed to come in among the musty old volumes like a breeze laden with sweet-scented hay. The ladies who accompanied her, - well, perhaps the less said, the better; suffice it to say they were not very fair, nor very fat, but very forty. The taller one carried an umbrella that might have belonged...
THERE are pleasures in a Bowdoin prize. It gives the winner grandeur in the eyes of Freshmen, and a wonderful reputation among his maiden aunts and country cousins; and the money in these hard times is decidedly convenient in making one's cash account balance with remittances from home...
...these rules are followed, your dissertation must be successful, - provided, of course, that it is among the first eight read...
MEMBERS of Latin 6 were glad to learn from Pliny that the Romans looked upon going to recitations as a waste of time and a nuisance. In these degenerate days it is pleasant to think that some of the qualities of the men of old are still left among...
...AMONG the brevities this week, thanks to the courtesy of Professor Paine. we are able to print the prospectus of the "University Symphony Concerts," to be given this autumn and winter at Sanders Theatre, if, as the prospectus states, a sufficient number of subscriptions can be obtained. We sincerely hope that all will respond heartily to this appeal, and lose no time in going to Sever's to secure their seats. The proportion of students among the audience the last two years has been smaller than one would expect. Is it not a comment on our musical taste that...