Word: frees
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Fossil Fishes" came out. On these works his reputation was securely established. It was while gathering information for them that he became acquainted with Cuvier, whose teachings had great influence over him, and also with Humboldt, to whose apartments he was always welcome, and to whose library he had free access. He greatly profited by this privilege, as his own store of books was but a scanty...
...approach - can it be? - we recognize our ancient enemy of New York. He carries papers in his hand. We are scared, but unintimidated. Get him inside the intrenchment; stamp on him. Examine his papers, - O shame! they are tracts. Swear thus to treat all invaders of the free soil of Cuba. Mysterious stranger says it is n't Cuba, it's Patchoughe, Long Island, and he 's a colporteur, and we are children of wrath. Band (three men and a reporter) advance and corroborate; also arrest us for vagrancy. Loathsome Bastiles. Bailed out by colporteur, who proves to be connected...
...free country. This is supposed to be the principle on which the University Bookstore charges $ 1.50 or $ 1.75 for the same volume, according to the taste and fancy of the polite clerk...
Still we should keep in mind our true position, lest by being free from care while in college we should forget that success in after-life depends upon self-reliance, and that whatever is accomplished will be accomplished independently of others...
...corner," is nowhere to be met with in its pages. It is very interesting, extremely sensible, and thoroughly feminine. As comparisons are odious, we will not draw any; but when we make a mental contrast between the Packer and some of its masculine, "poluphloisboical" "University" brethren, we are free to say that the advantage lies all on one side...