Word: dears
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...DEAR SIR, - The Yale University Boat Club do hereby challenge you, the Harvard University Boat Club, to an eight oared, four-mile race, straight away with coxswains, the time and place to be hereafter agreed upon...
Couldst thou, - couldst thou, dear, forget...
...equally juvenile youngsters who try to come as near getting drowned as they can by walking on thin ice, and some twenty have got a ducking already, and have been put to soak till next year. They will bring a delicious lotus-eating element into your class, dear Freshmen. Such men never "brace." They find walking on thin ice so exciting, that they keep on trying it, and are drowned forever in the sea of lost degrees on Commencement Day. Now, if I were you, I should not, on the whole, get dropped; I admit it is rather "swell...
...that kind and urbane old gentleman, who will be a very father to you during your college course, and will introduce you to your sister, who will tell you at what hour the Dean receives, and will encourage you when you do nicely in your studies. Do not, dear young friends, despise this happy interior; this glimpse of home will make college life much less lonely...
...DEAR young friends, (for you are the Crimson's friends, are n't you?) we wish at once to take you in, in the kindly and Samaritan sense of the phrase, - to be meat and drink, board and lodging, to you; to be your "guide, philosopher, and friend," your vade mecum. I offer you a few suggestions, - suggestions merely; for the editors of the Crimson are too intelligent and gentlemanly a body not to be alive to the fact that a Freshman knows everything, and that it would be decidedly presumptuous for any one who has passed one or more...