Word: home
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SENIORS are now writing home to find out who their grandfathers were...
...Senior recently received a chiding letter from his father, who had heard from the Faculty that his son was in danger of losing his degree. The son replied by offering to bet his father fifty dollars that h would bring home his sheepskin...
...will not, becomes wunt. He is apt to call law lor, America Americar, etc., evidently to atone for his almost universal slight to the r in the middle of a word. Roof, root, and room become roof, room, root, etc. The sound he gives to such words as boat, home, comb, throat, spoke, coat, poke, etc., is unlike anything I ever heard before, and has to be heard from the lips of a genuine up-country Yankee to be understood. Duty, tune, lucid, blue, etc., become dooty, toon, bloo, etc. Past, fast, last, etc., invariably parst, farst, larst, only...
...asking for the host of friends standing around. The matter seems scarcely worth calling attention to, since it is presumably the result of thoughtlessness, and not of a determination to be ungentlemanly. Still, those who have before acted in this way should remember that many ladies on their way home from church are kept waiting outside, while the gentlemen who accompany them are getting the mail; that the climate of New England at this time of year is a severe one; and that the longer a lady has to stand exposed to the east-wind after coming...
...argument, - be he ever so faithful a student, to go into an examination and do himself justice or fairly test his technical knowledge of a subject, without a careful review of the matter he is to be examined on. It is the review of a subject that drives it home, that makes it fast in the tenacious grasp of memory. But when do we get the opportunity for this review? During the three weeks allotted to the examinations, you answer. But what if the most of our examinations come during the first week, as is the case with many, where...