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Word: discoverable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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During the next act you are attracted by the blushes of a lady not far off, and you discover that it is the pretty girl whom Jack Brown, who graduated three or four years ago, has just married. Jack has brought her here, or she has brought Jack here, for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »

Those of us whose ambition is restrained within a narrower compass, whose aspirations are confined merely to a degree, have the same difficulty about the extent of our knowledge and the length of time we have been acquiring it. Seniors, as a general rule, take four three-hour electives. They...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME VERSUS KNOWLEDGE. | 11/17/1876 | See Source »

FROM time to time certain disturbances take place in Cambridge, of which the authors are probably students; and last week an unusual violation of private property occurred in the abstraction of a skeleton from the Natural History Museum. Whether the Faculty have taken any steps to discover the guilty parties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/3/1876 | See Source »

At the same time, if you do not talk about studying, it is not probable that they will trouble themselves enough about you to discover that you are working hard; and as long as you are not caught at it, the more work you do, the better. There is a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 10/6/1876 | See Source »

I find that my letter is as long as a real sermon, and I will close it at once, with the hope that you will have had the patience to read far enough to discover that it comes from

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 10/6/1876 | See Source »

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