Word: fining
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...tell you of the low trick played on a dun by my chum last year. My chum had been deluded enough to subscribe to one of those periodical editions of Don Quixote, under the pleasing belief that it would be a fine thing to acquire Cervantes in so cheap a manner. "Just think!" he said. "Only fifty cents to be paid each week. And, really, every fellow should own Don Quixote." Affairs went on smoothly for two or three weeks. The payments were prompt, and each number of the periodical was eagerly devoured. But at about the time mentioned...
...work, as a whole, is meant to show no affectation of fine writing, nor does it lay claim to literary excellence. The Advocate has this ground by right of possession; we do not attempt to rival it in jeux d'esprit, or in cunningness of speculation, or otherwise poach upon its preserves. We shall be content with the humbler task of satisfying the curiosity of our readers about what is going on in Cambridge, and at other colleges, and of giving them an opportunity to express their ideas upon practical questions. It ought to be added perhaps, that, while...
After graduation, Mr. Gray studied law and was admitted to the bar, but never practised, turning his whole attention to literature and the fine arts...
...other is a fine specimen of the skill of "The Master E. S., 1466," the earliest-known German engraver. Hardly known either, for it is uncertain what his family name was, and it is only supposed that he was the first to use a rolling press and make copper-plate engraving his occupation...
Though it has been known in a general way, for over a year, in undergraduate circles, that this collection could be seen by any one who eared to make application to the Curator, it has been as little visited by them as another object of interest in Cambridge, - our fine Observatory, with its mammoth telescope, a sight of which blesses the eyes and satisfies the curiosity of undergraduates but once in their four years' course, and only then by a gracious "special invitation...