Word: laying
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...except the smallest and more abject, namely, the seekers after "snap" courses. This regulation, with the one recently announced concerning special students will do away with the objectionable features of our elective system. The professional drone in college is becoming passe, and a man, if he is anybody, must lay claim to some intellectual tastes or ambitions. He must be following, at least, one of the regular roads of mental advancement, not, as it were, dallying with Music 14 and Fine Arts 20 in the groves of idleness...
...requisites for admission to the college, the present elective system and the system of voluntary attendance at recitations presented its report by Mr. Lodge, a minority report being presented by Mr. Smith. The reports were accepted from the committee and the committee discharged. It was voted to lay both reports on the table pending their printing for the use of the board. The committee on the religious needs and interests of the college made a partial report by Mr. Lowell, offering the following resolutions...
...little buds are shooting every-where." It is spring, but, in spite of the warm weather, it is also the fit time for overcoats, as the tailor says. April is a deceptive maid, and lures many an unsuspecting youth to an early grave by her enticing suggestions to lay aside the winter garments. It was only yesterday morning that a large choir of coughers sang an inharmonious accompaniment to the minister's words, and then attempted to drown out the voice of the heavy basses and the airy, melodious tones of the boy singers at chapel. In all earnestness...
...over the floor, and in nearly all other things it differs from the American establishment. The editorial room is connected by a ladder with bunks on a loft above, where the managing editor sleeps, and next to it is, invariably, a room fitted with an opium bunk and a lay out. Evidences of domestic life are about the place - pots, kettles and dishes taking up about as much room as the press. If an editor finds that journalism does not pay he gets a job at washing dishes or chopping wood, and he does not think he has descended...
...their stylographic pens on the edges of their notes, write their names all over their books and indite doggerel to their female friends therein, all lay their trivial characters before us. Straws show which way the wind blows; study the men about you through their notes and you will not need a game of poker to tell his character...