Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...room twenty or thirty years ago. According to her story, he scowled at her fearfully, and gruffly bade her vacate immediately, and no longer let his room be desecrated by a female presence. Tradition makes spirits quite common around Cambridge, and the Professor at the Breakfast Table, you know, mentions having seen the devil's footsteps here in his youth. I have often fancied that certain black streaks on the end of Holworthy were his tracks burnt into the bricks, perhaps when he was going up to spend the evening in the third or fourth story. If they...
...election the other day I voted the Ben Butler ticket, as almost everybody did, it seems. I'm glad he's elected. He's old for President, I know, but then...
...crews of other colleges, if they should discover in this explanation of the prevailing style of rowing here any new points which it would be advantageous to know, can avail themselves of them...
...early, and most find it natural to get their water and coal after everything else has been done. We do not lay much stress upon the danger that any one may tumble down stairs and break his neck; but, from personal experience, we know that it is very exasperating to come down with a thump and a bite of the tongue, when we have miscalculated the number of steps. The possibility that one may be brought up full against the wall, or dashed down a few steps into the stomach of another wayfarer, makes locomotion in the winding halls...
VERY instructive is the second number of Volume II. of the Vassar Miscellany. We scarcely know which article is the more racy and readable, - the political essay on "The Tendency to Centralization of the Government of the United States," or the moral reflections "About Jonahs." Our inability to understand the latter is only a slight drawback to our enjoyment of it, and is more than compensated when we consider how wise she who wrote it must have been...