Word: got
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...told the full particulars of the awful story; but it is surmised that there exists at the college a secret band of sophomores whose dark and wicked design it is to prey upon the freshmen in all manner of means. Through some unknown source these conspirators got wind of the possession of a quantity of peanuts by the aforementioned freshman - a parting gift from a fond mother or perhaps a sweetheart, as full of hope and trusting courage the youth set out to win his way in college. Peanuts! how many tender associations cluster round this name! Thoughts of boyish...
...Yale man, who was a guest at Memorial one day last term, when he heard of the many complaints against the fare, declared that it was fully as good as Yale students got at New Haven. "In either case," he said, "the meat could be chewed, and the bottom of a cup of the rather weak coffee was not actually visible to the naked...
...professor replied, "The reason is plain, She got Hung(a)ry, and wanted more Turkey...
...Andrews, translating Virgil - " 'Three times I strove to cast my arms about her neck, and - 'that's as far as I got, Prof." "Well, Mr. Andrews, I think that was quite far enough...
...mine, with one sixth interest. One man, Colney, opposed it, but the others were so near shooting him that he came round in no time. So she is going down the mine to-morrow, - and, by the way, you had better go down at the same time. We've got nothing as yet but a hand-windlass, with a big bucket on the end of a rope, so that it's like going down a magnified well; but if Elsie can do it, I guess...