Word: beene
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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But what we need at Harvard is a deeper appreciation of the fact that college is but a preparatory school, after all; that before very long we shall be placed in a position where earnestness is almost indispensable to success, and indifference a thing to be fought against, instead of...
THERE must have been something more than the wine-crackers at the bottom of it all, though I shall always maintain that they were very strong. To tell the truth, the Goody did say something the next morning about "thim nasty empty bottles" - "nasty" to her, I fear, because they...
He was a man bent and wrinkled by age, dressed in cocked-hat and knee-breeches, with his hair powdered and done up in a queue. He looked like some Rip Van Winkle who might have graduated any time early in the last century, and have been sleeping quietly from...
But when he told some tale of wild pranks after a punch, when the royal upper-classmen had been served from a huge bowl by trembling Freshmen, their fags, dragged from warm beds to grace their lords' festivities, his eye sparkled and blazed with a youthful fire, and he seemed...
He talked proudly of the Harvard Washington Corps and the Navy, whose flags are long since food for moths, and whose very names are meaningless to us. For aught I know, he might have been an officer in one of these, and led his troop down from their armory in...