Word: like
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Like the bread that floats away...
...like the new ideas...
...appear to be substantiated, then it is that the undergraduates are given to discussing the present system of penalties. There will probably no one be found who thinks that a man, even if caught in disorderly conduct at one end of the yard, should be held responsible for like occurrences at the other end, merely because they happened the same evening. No officer, when he detects a thief at one place, charges him with all the thefts that have occurred the same night. To be suspended with many men means to lose their good reputation, to regain which a long...
...bent and wrinkled by age, dressed in cocked-hat and knee-breeches, with his hair powdered and done up in a queue. He looked like some Rip Van Winkle who might have graduated any time early in the last century, and have been sleeping quietly from that time, only to wake then and trouble...
Without any questions from me he began telling story after story, holding me spell-bound, as the Ancient Mariner held the wedding-guest "with his glittering eye." In fact, this eye is all I can distinctly remember about him, for his body seemed ghost-like and unreal enough. It was like the eye of any old man, weak and watery, while he described my Hollis room as he knew it once with its sanded floor and two wooden chairs; or while he pictured the Yard with its five buildings, deserted but for an occasional boy in a long, bag-tailed...