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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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How many of the students understand the possibilities of enjoyment afforded by a Saturday afternoon in town? Don't be frightened by the conundrum, or astonished at the seeming absurdity of the supposition that Harvard students can be ignorant in such a particular. I am serious, and honestly think that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SATURDAY AFTERNOONS. | 3/13/1874 | See Source »

ALTHOUGH very old, that story about Mr. Malum is worth repeating:- A friend, meeting Mr. Malum at a famous watering place, asked him if he enjoyed sea bathing. "No; the doctor has forbidden my going into the water." "Then you are malum prohibitum." Not relishing the joke, Malum retorted, "That...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 2/27/1874 | See Source »

Champagne? Don't mention it, Nellie dear, we had a bottle apiece,

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BOARDING-SCHOOL LETTER. | 1/16/1874 | See Source »

But they did, we don't know how, dear, but Marion, Cora, and I

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BOARDING-SCHOOL LETTER. | 1/16/1874 | See Source »

This antipathy is, if anything, a greater cause of ignorance than the expense which schooling involves. Our instruction, it is true, is not free. Yet very few can allege poverty as the cause of their ignorance. Besides the fact that a son a day is not a large sum to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF FRANCE. | 1/16/1874 | See Source »

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