Word: fret
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Notice is hereby given of the foundation, by the gift of Hon. Robert Treat Paine, of the class of 1855 of Harvard College, of the Robert fret Paine Fellowship of Social Science. This fellowship may be awarded to a graduate of any department of this University, wishing to study either at home or abroad the ethical problems of society, and the efforts of legislation, government administration, and private philanthropy, to ameliorate the lot of the masses of mankind. The annual income of this fellowship will be $500. Appointments are to be made for the term of one academic year...
...seemed to some, perhaps, like brazen effrontery for the nine to flaunt their striped blazers in the faces of those who paid for them, and to calmly spend their time as best suits themselves, with no apparent regard to the duty they owe their class. But let those malcontents fret no longer, but console themselves with the thought that the nine and its estimable captain cannot err but must in their infinite wisdom do what is right...
...Whether the future freshman shall offer a supposed knowledge of the use of the ablative in Plautus or the power of reaching a mathematical infinity, as his claim for admittance, is of small moment with respect to one matter. We can well afford to allow the future freshman to fret and terrify his soul over the classics, but we who have passed the slough of despond require none the less a recognition of our power to read the classics. It is very pleasant and profitable for us that the beauties of Chaucer should be held up for our admiration...
...wicked freshman who smokes cigarettes, claims in excuse that the more men fume the less they fret...