Word: got
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Said one freshman solemnly to another: "Got your lessons?" "I am not sure." "Neither am I; for, you know, you don't always know what you do know for certain, don't you know...
...late for college chapel. The sight of a lady of his acquaintance in the streets had at all times been alarming enough to drive him into a shop or up a lane, and he had not survived the creation of the first batch of married fellows. How he had got into this thoroughly wrong paradise was a mystery which he made no attempt to explain. "A nice place this, eh?" he said to me; "nice gardens; remind me of Magdalen a good deal. It seems, however, to be decidedly rather gay just now, don't you think so? Commemoration week...
...Gibbs, the Hebrew scholar, who was then librarian, in order that the young Greek might be entitled to a room in the chapel building where the library was kept. Soon some of the tutors formed a class, to enjoy his reading and exposition of Aristophanes. Then a Hartford publisher got his grammar printed at the Cambridge Press, and at last Professor Felton drew him to Harvard and kept him there...
Secondly, we formed our opinion of the course of this committee from the report current at the college that assurances had come from it that in case other colleges could not be got to agree to a prohibition of professional trainers, it would after a certain date permit the employment of a trainer for the Harvard nine on the like terms with other colleges...
...noticeable fact that two of the colleges who got left near the bottom of the heap in baseball last spring are in high hopes of winning the championship this year. [Yale News...