Word: know
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...asked him all the questions a college man should know...
SUETONI D. JULIUS, '80.IT may perhaps be gratifying to many of our fashionable beaux, a race of animals for which I have a special respect, to know the antiquity of a part of their dress so valuable to them as the pantaloon. Pelontier, in his Hist. Celt., L. 2, c. 6, and Cluvenius, in his Germ. Antiq., L. 1, c. 16, plainly describe it; but not to trouble them with what Commodore Trunnion calls outlandish lingos, I extract the following passage from the valuable history of Dr. Henry, the authenticity of which on the most minute as well...
...There can be no doubt that the real interests of the nine demand this step, and the interests of the nine lie very close to the hearts of most college men. We wait with the greatest anxiety to hear the decision of the Corporation in this matter, and we know that our suspense is shared by a very large number in all classes...
...omitted to hear Professor Norton last winter should endeavor to attend this course, if they can manage to do so. An analysis of the portions omitted and comments on the portions read will secure a thorough understanding and enjoyment of the poem; and the readings will, as we all know, be not only instructive, but also charming...
...little town of West Hampton, Vt. His father, a farmer, died soon after, leaving his mother, a woman of a keen, though uneducated mind, and his grandfather, a relic of Revolutionary days, as guardians of Jeremiah's early years. History is almost silent about his childhood. We know that he early developed a taste for letters. He learned his alphabet at the age of two, and literally devoured his picture-books...