Word: donning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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By the way, I met several of your men last summer, and was surprised to see them attempt to imitate us in dress and manners. Why is it, when most of the people in the States accuse us of being conservative snobs, that they come over here and copy these...
"Indeed! I always thought you were bright, Fred; but what does it mean by saying if you don't do better you will have to sever your connection with the College?"
CAN any one direct me to a quiet house in Cambridge where I can pass my last two years at the Law School in peace? I don't want to go more than three miles away; I will not go where there is a musical instrument (masculine, feminine, or neuter...
By attentive listening I found this to be the lamentation of a select body of young men (being all spoiled children, they call themselves the S. Poils Society) over the shortcomings of their fellow-men (cribbing, cutting, etc.). This was getting too depressing to stand. I was not a pessimist...
Don't think I'm in love, though,