Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cases of emergency one should keep cool. This is the first and most important rule. Poisons are of two kinds, acids or alkalis and narcotics. The value of an alkali as an antidote is very small, unless the dose can be immediately administered. Common cooking soda diluted in water is one of the best alkalis which can be used in case of poisoning by an acid. Lemon juice and vinegar are acids which are valuable as antidotes to alkalis. When an emetic is necessary, mustard diluted in water, or luke-warm water in large quantities, should be given. Milk, olive...
...Athlete publishes the following letter: "Dear Sir: Will you please inform me of some fur dealer in New York; I have the following hides I will sell: 3 skunks, 10 musk rats, 1 white tail musk rat, 1 coon, 5 possums, 16 cats, 1 mink, 1 wild cat, 1 common barn rat. You see I am making good use of the D. B. shot gun I won time we were in Cleveland races...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I should like to call attention to the behavior of certain freshmen in French I, at the Friday morning recitations. A number of these fellows, who are evidently ignorant of the etiquette not only of college but of common life, have the habit of leaving the lecture room immediately after the roll call. They thus get the credit of going to a recitation, and still spend the hour as they like. Unhappily they do not seem to realize that in their conduct they are guilty of grave discourtesy to the instructor, - a discourtesy which does not come...
...evidently the work of the paste-pot editor, we would suggest that the Spirit hunt up another man for the position, and be careful to get one who can read ordinary English aright, and one too, who is not so bigoted that he thinks a man incapable of common sense simply because he is a college undergraduate...
Table 56 at Memorial defeated the Asteroids in a game of base-ball on the common yesterday afternoon by a score...