Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...forty minutes. At the last topic the talkers usually stop and for the ten minutes that remain of the hour, their neighbors enjoy a long wished quiet. Meanwhile how do the lecturer's word reach the unfortunate men who sit near those I have described. Something in this fashion: - "Let me give you an example of metornymy, he is certain to get on the crew. Care should be taken in the use of personification, and - in stringing your banjo. I think you will easily see that the writers purpose has been defeated - in three rounds. Personification often lends picturesqueness...
...they already possess. Being thus raised so far above us who have not attained this intellectual height (the "ignoble vulgar" as it were), they altogether for, get that we should like to hear the instructor's words, even though we lose the pleasure and profit of our friends' conversation. Let them not scorn us but pity us and aid us to reach their intellectual eminence...
...contempt that he deserves. Who is this person that pretends to know the needs and means of the first twenty-five scholars in the present senior class and can pick out eight of these men as being able to get along well without aid from the college funds? Let us trust that this omniscient writer himself is not one of these unfortunate high rank men who "almost invariably shun very valuable courses"! This would-be critic is at present unknown, but it is a pity that there should be even one man among us who thinks that he must...
Board and Rooms. To let, furnished front and side rooms; also, 8 or 10 students can be accommodated with first-class board at 14 Trowbridge Street...
Board and Rooms. To let, furnished front and side rooms; also, 8 or 10 students can be accommodated with first-class board at 14 Trowbridge Street...