Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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CARVARD HOLLEGE, Dec. -,187-.- JONES, SR.
America should rejoice to know that so many of her students are conditioned in Arithmetic and Modern Geography, and so few comparatively in the Classics. It evinces a commendable disregard for all things modern, and a due loyalty to the customs of our more enlightened ancestors. It is difficult to...
It is not enough that prices should rise like the mercury before a south-wind whenever a student enters a store, but every unfortunate person who has heard of Harvard must arm himself with a certificate of high moral character, borrow a car-fare, and make a pilgrimage to this...
The other day he heard the unmistakable knock, and with a groan called out "Come in," when a young but dilapidated female entered. With many tears she told the ancient and somewhat threadbare story of the hard-hearted judge sentencing the innocent husband to the congenial labor of shoemaking for...
The appropriateness of the gift threw Jones completely off his balance, and I saw him part with his last pair, whereupon she departed, increased the number of children by two, again bathed her face in tears, and tried the same experiment on Brown.