Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...piano duet would have been also, if the piano had had a little more "grand" about it. The "college songs" (?) with which the concert concluded were better done than usual, and made the customary hit. Some merriment was excited by the well-meant but futile attempts of one gentleman to remember the words of "Nelly was a Lady...
After the concert the settees were removed, and a very pleasant dance was improvised, at the close of which the club were invited to the house of a gentleman near by and handsomely entertained. After remaining there for about an hour, at the suggestion of the damp and cursing hackmen they started homeward, and reached Cambridge at about - o'clock, having had a very pleasant time...
...little mistake made by the gentleman who wandered into the Yard last week, and inquired the names of "all these hotels," gives a very good idea of the knowledge that many people have of college life...
...closing lines he proposes to stick by her to the bitter end. We can wish the gentleman nothing better than to live to witness the calamities and retributions he prophesies (fire and brimstone being among the least of these), because in that case he would be likely to attain to an exceedingly verdant...
...which could by any possibility prove beneficial to those pursuing it, there would, no doubt, have been appointed an instructor who should bestow upon it his undivided and fullest efforts. Not so Roman Law. It was sufficient to engage the services for a few hours a week of a gentleman whose time ought to have been considered fully occupied. Anything more expensive would have been a downright waste of college funds...