Word: donning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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"Why, made all the trouble. I spent all the morning yesterday trying to think what man in the class looked so much like me. I thought of that handsome Beck, but he certainly don't look like me."
"No doubt," said the N. C., with a sympathizing smile. "But what now is your opinion of the co-education of the sexes at Harvard? Don't you think it will result in the elopement of the prettiest girls to Illinois with the professors?"
"Well, don't you think they would giggle at Chapel, and cry when flunked in recitations, and would n't they organize a praying band and go round and shut up Adam's, and - "
The T. F. started and looked suspicious as the N. C. broke suddenly off, and rose, saying, "Thanks for information. Don't trouble yourself about a card. Here's mine." And with the light step and smiling face of a true philanthropist, passed rapidly up one of the side streets...
Again, don't combine with all that lavishness of expenditure on dress and amusements which you are already acquiring an '82-like stinginess in giving money to the good of your class, or an '80-like indifference to all class organizations.