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Word: first (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first edition of the Harvard Book has been exhausted, and subscriptions for a second edition are being received by the publishers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

...third Junior forensics will be due as follows: First division, January 8; second division, January 15; third division, January 22; fourth division, January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

...first part he made a faint movement towards going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LED ASTRAY. | 12/7/1877 | See Source »

...would suggest that an elementary course in Latin Literature would also be useful, at least to the Editors of the Acta. If these gentlemen were to begin the study of Horace's Odes, they would discover before they had got far (in Lib. I. Ode I, line I, first word), that the name of Horace's chief friend and patron is not spelt Macaenas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/7/1877 | See Source »

...First, and perhaps the most despicable of all, is the man who takes notes. Of course we all take some notes, just to have the appearance of paying attention; but this man takes them preeminently; he is always taking them; during every lull in the recitation you may hear the steady scratching of his pencil. When the instructor said, "Mr. De Browne, will you please close the door?" I looked at the scribbler, and lo! he was jotting that down, too! Who is he? O, you would n't care to know him; but entre nous, you may recognize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SECTION. | 12/7/1877 | See Source »

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