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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Don't take it upon yourself, though, to ask questions or offer observations in recitations. Your questions would bore the students, and your observations would bore the tutors. And don't talk to the tutors out of hours. A Freshman who is intimate with the powers that be is looked...

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

After all, though, ostracism is not very practicable at present; and I have in mind a much less troublesome system of getting rid of disagreeable people, which I am not rich enough to put into practice. At the same time some of my readers may be able and willing to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OSTRACISM AND OTHER THINGS. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

Whatever has become of him?" "Of him, why don't you know?

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NIGHT-THOUGHTS. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

THE other day, as I was improving a shining hour in a recitation which, by some strange mischance, lacked that absorbing interest which our recitations so generally possess, I happened to be looking at our elegant friend Augustus just as our instructor called upon Smudge. Now Smudge is not an...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO CHARACTERS. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

Knowing this, and knowing what a good-natured, good-hearted fellow Augustus really is, I was rather surprised to see a sneer on his face when he heard Smudge's name. Looking at Smudge to see the reason, I could see that he is no beauty; his hands are large...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO CHARACTERS. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

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