Word: downs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Professor. In finding longitude at sea, how do you compare your own local time with Greenwich time? Student. Put it down and wait till you get there.
"TOM," said I, "this idea of settling down to grubbing directly after leaving College is all nonsense. Let's go abroad for a year."
Down stairs, for a bit of a walk.
But is weighed down with honeyed thoughts of thee.
NOT to open the question of compulsory attendance at church, which undergraduates have some very decided opinions upon, we would ask here to-day, when so many of our clerical friends favor us with their presence, that these same friends consider whether or not we have grounds for this criticism...