Word: like
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hours and a half after the examination began a majority of the class was still in the examination-room, nor was the room empty when four hours were up. Now, since we were particularly requested in this examination to "pay attention to form as well as substance," we should like to request of the instructor some attention on his part to the swiftness with which the minutes pass, and also to the imperfect powers of man. This, I think, but a fair request, for, when more is expected than a mere answer to the questions, the questions themselves should...
...been at New Haven an entertainment of some sort, called a Junior Promenade. To this entertainment etiquette forbids Freshmen to go; but, at the same time, respect for upper-class men, and possibly a little intimidation, induce them to buy tickets in large quantities. These tickets are to them like the traditional elephant, and they are only too glad to dispose of them at half price to economical Seniors. Of this proceeding the Record disapproves. It does not object to the selling of tickets to Freshmen, but it declares that any man who goes to an entertainment for half-price...
...following our base example, and letting the ignoble body attain the ascendency over the glorious mind, hundreds will be doomed to utter darkness. Your contemporary assures us that "at Harvard, the man of fashionable illiteracy and European dress has his idolatrous imitators." Shall we not rise at once, then, like one man, and put down these evil influences? I should suggest that the first steps to be taken would be to assemble a congress of "Pocos" in the Yard immediately, divest ourselves then of all foreign habiliments, deliver them over to those whose minds are fitted only for such shackles...
...seem like a poor birdling in a cage...
...haply, nestling like some honey...