Word: friend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Some friend of Yale's athletic interests has offered a cup worth twenty-five dollars to the winner of the quarter mile runs at the spring meeting...
...Dartmouth bitter complaint is made of the system of excuses for cuts. "If a student is too ill to attend recitation," wails the Dartmouth, "he must crawl up (or get a friend to carry him on a shutter) and inform the professor of the fact, and obtain permission to crawl back...
...undergraduates of his college brought him their exercises for correction. To the first he merely said, "Thank you, Mr. A., that is very nice, very nice indeed." To the second when he anxiously inquired as to the possible fate of his companion in an approaching examination, "O your friend Mr. A.? He, too, will be ploughed...
...clean score: First gent - "Madam, permit me to introduce my friend, who is not nearly the fool he looks." Second gent - "That is where my friend differs from me, madam. - [Tiger...
...Oxford man, says Robert Laird Collier, is known in society by his drawl. The present writer has several young Oxford friends, who are true, good, truth-loving fellows. One of these has swept honor after honor, and lives on their income, and his conversation is all of the Lord Dundreary style. This is just what he said to a young lady friend in my hearing within a fortnight. He sat with one knee tightly held in his clasped fingers: "Do-eh-er-like-er-music? I-eh-ye-know-eh-like-er-music-eh-ye-know." It is said these...