Word: expresse
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...most firm and unblushing fronts. Some few instances of sheepishness there were, to be sure, and one Freshman, on the entrance of the urbane investigators, bashfully retreated to his bedroom, whence he was dislodged with some difficulty. All admitted the meanness of the act, and several gentlemen could express the violence of their indignation only by the use of words which even sporting papers banish from their columns. Most of them had no doubt but that some Freshmen resident in the entry were the guilty men, but none had the faintest idea what Freshmen. A dignified impenetrability, in short, characterized...
They must be "mixed." However, as we are not included, we cannot express our desire for the convention...
Could ne'er express...
...overlooked, till some such accident as the present warns us of the dreadful chance that still remains, after all human precautions are taken. We learn with sorrow that this calamity comes home to some of our number with a shock of almost stunning severity, and we feel constrained to express our heartfelt sympathy to them. Our feelings are drawn out in a peculiar manner to our fellow-students thus early deprived of those guardians and friends on whom young men are so dependent. May the breaking of other ties not serve to lessen, but rather to strengthen, those which bind...
...Cuba! We write a letter home, enclosing will. Freshman gets his head shaved, and despatches by express eleven locks of hair (his hair). Embark on blockade-runner. Presented with cutlasses and sworn in. Bearded patriot shows us over our seaworthy craft for two reis. A stanch Clyde-built steamer, English bottom, long, low, rakish hull, B. No. 3. Interrupted by pistol-boom from quarter-deck, we weigh anchor (4000 lbs., more or less). We lend a hand, which is blistered. Observe mysterious stranger sorting papers in the shadow of a warehouse. Freshman fires, does not drop...