Word: fors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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"O, first-rate! I played foot-ball all the fall, am training this winter for the crew, and think of base-ball in the spring."
"I am very glad to hear it, for, Fred, I've been a little worried by two notices I received from the College, something about your doing poorly in Greek and Latin examinations."
"Pooh! That's nothing, father, a mere form; relic of an old custom. You see, about a hundred years ago, the twenty best men of the class used to contend in an examination for the first place. The nineteen who did n't win were told that they might go...
"I am glad of it; you have taken quite a load off my mind, for I feared that you were in danger of dismissal. Well, Fred, I won't detain you longer, your sisters are dying to know all about college; but before you go, here's a specimen of...
ALMOST every one, in reading Macaulay, must have been struck by the numerous allusions to an imaginary school-boy, who is called upon to refresh the memory of the reader upon subjects as widely different as the date of a king of England, the construction of a Greek play, or...