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Word: desks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...studying twenty-three hours a day, I did not expect a very exalted mark. To-day, on entering his chamber of horror, I saw the section sitting with their heads buried in their hands, and Mr. Hut gazing at them with an air of triumph. Creeping to the desk, I gasped: "My mark?" "Eighteen per cent," briskly answered he of condition fame. After the recitation, when about to poison myself with soda at Hubbard's, I was comforted by learning that all the men except two had got under forty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOW-WATER MARK. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

There was one branch of science for which I thought I had a special taste; I did my paper without a single mistake. Approaching the desk with a confident smile, I was informed, "Your paper was perfect, - not a single error; your mark is eighty-six per cent." "Why," said I, in a discouraged way," "I thought you said that I did a perfect paper." "So I did," said the scientist, in an angry voice; " I never give a higher mark than eighty-six." I wanted to ask him if 86 = 100 with the Faculty in reckoning up averages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOW-WATER MARK. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

...stealing hats and coats, it is better that something should be done to prevent them. Last Saturday afternoon some individual coolly walked off with two fifty-dollar overcoats; how he did it is a mystery, as he must have passed in full view of the attendant at the desk and all the persons in that part of the Library. He had evidently heard that the check system was to be introduced on Monday, and thought that he would make hay while the sun shone. We believe that two other overcoats have also been lost from the Library this year, besides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

...Sophomore year he published ten volumes on Political Economy, which have now become the text-books - as we all know - of desk, pulpit, and platform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN AT HARVARD. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

...clock to consult some books reserved for French 4. Not finding them on the reserved shelves, I looked round the Library to see if any one was reading them, and also looked on the shelves where they belong, but they were nowhere to be seen. Having requested at the desk that they should be hunted up, I resigned myself to the inevitable, and sat down to read another book. Presently I saw a resident graduate who attends the course, enter the Library with a pile of books under his arm, and calmly put the two in question on the shelves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIRATES IN THE LIBRARY. | 12/6/1878 | See Source »

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