Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...taken directly to the grounds in a coach and received with cheers by enthusiastic supporters; after all this expenditure the association will have a balance of over a thousand dollars. Compare this state of affairs with the condition of athletics at Princeton. After some difficulty our association managed to borrow a sum of money. This enabled them to send the team up to New York Monday morning. A further allowance of borrowed cash gave the Princeton representatives a light lunch and the balance was large enough to pay their elevated R. R. fare, compelling them to walk six or seven...
...favorable interpretation, not one book in four of the whole number in the library was used at all last year, except by persons having access to the shelves and using books in a manner incapable of record. Nevertheless, it is a pleasant fact that the 1358 persons authorized to borrow books from the library carried home 44 books apiece on the average during the year 1885-86, and that this use of the library is increasing. The librarian reports another very agreeable sign of college progress which he mentions that, whereas in 1874-75 only 57 percent of the undergraduates...
...freshman secret societies are after him, and he has, as I understand, already joined several. From his last engagement he sought his room with one pantaloon leg and his shoes and stockings alone remaining of the garments he had on when 'he went in,' but fortunately was able to borrow a coat of a friend to gird about his loins...
...there is around us, and in all our lives stuff enough to make good stories. And if there is not this material, we can never do much with what we borrow. A fellow need not necessarily confine himself to Adirondack deer hunts and the like; but almost any ordinary series of events may be idealized into something worth printing. We must take out of the mass of ephemeral, and comparatively insignificant happenings, the things lasting and significant. In other words, we must put into our work the touches of nature which make our characters alive, and not cunningly painted figures...
...book-case"; the swarthy Spaniard with cigars, "smuggled, senor," and strong enough at that to knock down and annihilate any daring customs officer; these are familiar callers. The latest character to appear is the young man who has a fine set of surveying instruments in pawn, and wishes to borrow money enough to redeem them. As all his former friends have failed him he wishes to add you to the circle of his acquaintance and offers to reimburse any small loan you may feel inclined to make, out of the proceeds of his future surveys...