Word: getting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...propose, and get told that she was already engaged...
...Very pretty were the bits of color, - crimson, white, and blue, - that relieved the dull, grim red of the old buildings. But the exercises seemed a good deal of a farce to me. I fell down, and was stepped on, and the ladies laughed, - so I was glad to get out again...
...written upon "Dancing as a Revelation of Character," or upon the "Limit of the Diaphanous in Dress." I tried the diversion of repeating my fables for French 1, but - mirabile dictu - found no amusement in that. Were examinations anything but vexation of spirit? Should we ever be able to get "the maximum of knowledge with the minimum of grind"? Happy thought! Behold a royal road to learning! Let all your friends be grinds, - grinds pure, undefiled. Their brains, you know, when crammed for an examination, are only sponges dipped in a saturated solution of knowledge: what does not drip into...
SENIORS can get the Baccalaureate Sermon, the two Class Orations, and the Class Poem, by calling at Matthews...
FIRST SUB-FRESH. Can you tell where I can get a permit to the Yard...