Word: guesses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting, suggesting,-criticising where need be, the directors elected for the ensuing year can acquire a much better idea of the general sense of the members in regard to the management and to matters of detail which may be of public interest, which they will only be able to guess at if the attendance and interest be slight and the proceedings of the meeting be merely perfunctory...
Simkins, to Miss Innocent, at the spring sports: "Look, they have put Smith's time down at 8.55; I guess they want to keep his record dark." Miss Innocent: "Why, how can they do that if they write it down in white? [The problem is still unsolved.] - [Chaff...
...them. Contrary to the precedent of former years the order of the classes is not the favorite order predicted for the finish. The freshmen are placed much nearer the front than their college seniority permits, while the juniors and sophomores are interchanged by many who are accustomed to guess at the result of our class races...
...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...
Harvard is made to expatiate her sins in divers and manifold ways. In silence she endures the infliction of "Harvard" Shakespeares, of "Harvard" bookracks and of "Harvard" streets and cowpaths in almost every hamlet of Massachusetts. What will be the next indignity to be put upon her we cannot guess - perhaps a Harvard baking powder or a Harvard infants' food...