Word: impertinente
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IT seems that among the amusements known to Freshmen of this and other colleges is the one of writing to Vassar for young lady correspondents. The Freshman obtains a catalogue, finds the name of some Sophomore or sister Freshman, and "in flowery and verbless sentences" pleads with her to correspond...
THE sign, "Reporters and Loafers are Warned from Here," was put up for these reasons: Reporters and newspaper men had annoyed and hindered us about our training by their impertinent questions, and had, moreover, written insulting and abusive articles on the crew and its members. Reporters came to our boat...
IT has been rather the fashion for the last few years, beginning prominently with an oration by Mr. Adams, if we remember rightly, to blame Harvard for not giving enough instruction in writing. People who saw in the Catalogue what seemed a very small number of themes and forensics prescribed...