Word: lets
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...let us remember that warning which is given to small boys at schools...
...girls in that entry had been frightened out of her wits at seeing the ghost of an old professor who used to occupy her 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...
...Annalist (Albion College, Mich.) contains this week much that is interesting and instructive. Its article upon the Edenic Intellect, equally brilliant and entertaining, begins with the startling announcement, "Human language hath personal as well as ethnic and cosmical relations." Let us ponder upon this, and when we have duly pondered, go on with the author, glowing like him with real pride at the thought, "To have placed itself at the historic headship of the race that cut off all pre-historic races, and crushed out of being all synchronic races, is certainly proof of no mean power, worthy almost scientific...
...beginning of the year. I then fully understood the import of his answer. He evinced the most morbid curiosity for all my secrets, and as soon as he had discovered one, it was the common property of the class. From morning till evening it was one continual "Let me see your notebook," "Where's your translation?" How is this problem solved?" "Let me see your theme," and so on without limit...
...Let us take up these points in order. The constitution provides that the Steward shall be an undergraduate. We suggest that a professional steward, giving his whole time to the business, would serve the interests of the Club much better than it is possible for any undergraduate, however able and zealous, to do. At Williams College the poor students obtain excellent fare at $2.50 per week, while here the fare is poor and insufficient at $4 per week. It may be said that prices are much lower one hundred and fifty miles back in the country than near a large...