Word: concealer
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...convulsive sobbing of a woman in distress? Patter, patter, patter, the tears go as they fall - upon what? Surely it can be nothing else, - upon a stiffly starched shirt-bosom, while the poor girl cries as if her heart would break. Ah, yes, dear reader, do not pretend to conceal your tears, it is no other than the unhappy "co-ed," with whom the miserable youth across the way has exchanged clothing...
...must be brushed aside from your path with stern determination. Those who say you have no soul are envious. Do not mind them. Remember that "The lot of the unenvied is not enviable." Last in place, but first in importance, remember that, as the purpose of words is to conceal thought, so the purpose of manners is to conceal feeling. Vulgar people will call this dissimulation; you know that it is only good breeding. I am conscious that this is but an imperfect chart for those who set out on the sea of college life. But the principles are here...
...introduced to a damsel whom Fate had doubly tried to conceal, not only by naming her Smith, but also by giving her hair and eyes of the universal mind's own brown hue; and as I danced with her my own optics would wander away from her to the fair-haired Amy and that ill-omened Yale man, in spite of me, so that I fear the Miss Smith had a very meagre opinion of what Harvard "culchaw" had done...
...showing conclusively that the writer's literary ability is extremely slim. The idea of Mr. King's being able to represent Harvard College as the editor of a paper is scouted by all intelligent students. He merely uses his nominal connection with the College as a stalking-horse to conceal the true character of this new enterprise, which is simply a financial speculation got up by Mr. Moses King for his own sole benefit. The array of articles from members of the Faculty which he has obtained for his first number shows that he has been very successful...
...which students leave the reserved books lying around in the different alcoves, instead of returning them to their proper shelves. It may be through carelessness that a student takes a book to the most remote alcove and leaves it there, but it looks very like a selfish attempt to conceal the book for future...