Word: blowne
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hard task for a school boy, becomes well nigh impossible to the college student who is no longer aided and guided by the walls of his home and the close scrutiny of his parents. No work can well be done by a man who allows himself to be blown hither and thither by the wind of popularity, or who is striving after good-fellowship with his class-mates. Not that a student should shut himself up in his rooms and so acquire monkish habits, lose in worldly knowledge to gain in knowledge of letters: yet at the first glance, this...
...passionately offers himself. He continues unceasingly to offer himself, and all around him, living sacrifices on the altar of his divinity, who will never smile upon him. Young man, be not deceived; trust her not, she's fooling thee." You cannot,-we are sorry to blast your high-blown ambition by the revelation,-cannot yodel. Requiescat in pace, and let us too requiescat...
...School man had his hat blown away at noon in the middle of the yard and although he and his friends searched everywhere for it, they were unable to find...
...next Spring will be won by Yale. With this game surely lost, our chance for the championship is the same as gone, too. And yet,-we wish to ask the News if its decision is unalterable. May not your Nine all die, or be dropped, or your college be blown up by dynamiters, or something? Can't you give us a ray of hope even, from your superior prescience of next year's happenings...
...cold wind is reported to have blown a good deal of coal out of the various bins in the basements of Stoughton and Hollis. Owners are advised to put locks on the doors of their coal bins. Yale locks are the best, for the wind may have some combination. Verbum...