Word: finds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...without having read over connectedly what he is to be examined in; yet this is a season when a man's time is not entirely his own, - certain duties are expected of him, - so that even if he had the inclination it would be exceedingly difficult for him to find the time for him to study between Wednesday and Saturday...
...sorry to see that slips are cut from the files in the Reading-Room. It is annoying in looking for an article to find that it has been...
...particular hag prates about "the dark young woman who is coming across the water," Freshman attempts to teach the pretty Zuleka to smoke a cigarette. Zuleka coy, but asks Freshman for a chew. All waltz. Knapsacks not so heavy as they were. Take greased-lightning express at next village. Find ourselves going the wrong way. Don't care. Arrive home 11.30. Mangled by pet bull-dog. Four hundred and fifty miles in three days, not so bad! Mean to walk to Cuba next summer...
...town treasury. The tax-bills were made out accordingly, and sent around to the students. All were surprised, and some, in their surprise, paid the bills. When next the farmers, "in town-meeting assembled," undertook to legislate for the town, they were in their turn surprised to find the hall well supplied with students, fresh from society laurels and eager to display their eloquence, who moved that a sidewalk be laid from the village to College Hill. They made speeches in favor of their project and ended by voting it through. The sidewalk was duly laid, but the students were...
...after all, only students who have graduated from college, and forgotten much if not most of what they have learned there, who cannot act so much as a unit, and who are not so easily accessible as students. Though the latter are less numerous, they should not find themselves entirely neglected, as they are now, on that account. You will very probably say that educated men gain an experience of men and affairs, after leaving college, which gives them this greater consideration, - and who will not agree with you? - but it would be hard, and more, for you to show...