Word: getting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Notes and Queries" at the Library appear the following questions: What is the derivation of milk-punch? What is the source of the quotation, "Jehovah needs very few chore-boys"? How can I get Joseph Cook's lecture on "Ultimate America"? To this last question some one has answered, "By asking Joseph." The "Notes and Queries" are truly a great institution...
...Harvard Glee Club has plenty of first tenors and second basses; it also has some second tenors and first basses, and it tried to get a jodler, but it did not go to Baltimore and Philadelphia...
...present a man must make his beginning in science in his college course, for every one knows that the entrance science amounts to nothing. The College recognizes this in Botany, in Chemistry, and in Geology; all of these have excellent courses, where a man may get a good grounding and an idea whether to go on with the subject. But in Zoology there is no such course. To be sure, there is a course marked in the elective pamphlet as "Zoology (Elementary Course)"; but any one who takes the course finds that it is of the most advanced type...
...really get such letters, father? That's immense! Why, they 're Deturs...
...Deturs, gifts from the College. From the Latin, do, dare, dedi, detum, to give. The College gives them only to the twenty best scholars in the class. It's a great honor to get one; fellows that have Deturs hang them up in frames. You hardly ever get more than one; my having two is superb, equal to getting a double first at Oxford...