Word: founds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SENIOR. I found it lying here. I've made out four lines of the writing on it: they are in verse. I'll warrant they are more of a puzzle than you can solve...
...clothes from Smiler & Compa, Bond St., W., and he never by any chance loses his temper. He is the most thoroughly gentlemanly person that I ever knew, although his best friends will hardly venture to claim that he is a gentleman; and when I first knew him I found him very agreeable. But he has since developed a propensity for quietly laying hands upon the best tarts in every dish. He will lounge up to the table, join in a friendly conversation with somebody or other, and, in an absent sort of way, will slip into his plate tart after...
...There is no sort of need of being found...
...private tutors, who expect a large compensation for the disagreeableness of the occupation which they pursue. The excessive amount of mathematics required in the Freshman year is profitable alone to the tutors, who reap a rich harvest before every examination. The proof of what we say may be found in the number of students who are obliged to spend large sums of money in order to be put up to enough "points" to pass the examinations, and the absolute ignorance of the subject which they display a very short time after the examination is over...
Another little matter may be of interest in this connection. A report has received wide circulation through College, and has found its way into some of the Boston papers, that the average mark required for securing a degree had been raised from fifty per cent to sixty per cent. I am authoritatively informed that this rule has not passed. It was proposed by one of our Professors, but was voted down by the Faculty...