Word: going
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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INSTRUCTOR (too old a bird to have salt sprinkled on his tail). I did not say, but you can go on where the last man left...
...wonder what I do with such men? To anticipate your question I will go on and tell you my various plans for abolishing the nuisance...
...dinner was rather beyond their means. It seems to me that in such a general affair as a class dinner, an attempt should be made to bring it as nearly as possible within every one's power to attend, and certainly not, as in this case, to go beyond the price charged by previous classes. I most sincerely hope that '82, when it arrives to the dignity of a class supper, will take this matter into consideration...
...college were Episcopalians, and were dissatisfied with the present time of the vacation, they would have no right, as Episcopalians, to demand a change. If they wish to have the vacations arranged to conform to the festivals and fasts of their church, I am afraid they will have to go elsewhere...
...putting the finger of perplexity in the mouth of deliberation, I asked a harmless-looking youth of the tribe called Soffamaw, what it was the will of the Mollahs of the place that I should do next. "Oh!" said he, (and may the Prophet singe his beard!)* "you must go to Or-phiz; every one goes to Or-phiz. Knock at the door, and ask the reverend Mollah with the white beard for his wife, the moon-faced Messisahriz." By the word wife these dogs mean the principal lady of the harem. Salaaming and thanking him for his information...