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Word: likenesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...shrugged her shoulders like a French woman. "Don't you see them?" she asked. Of course I had to see them, so I remarked that they were very pretty. "Young man," she began again, "have you any peanuts with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN INSANE BALL. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

Prof. - Stop: that sounds too much like a guidebook of Athens. Leave such matters to Mr. King...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...Juniors reading the last Crimson. Junior No. 1. Say, Jack, who wrote "The Blind Maeonides"? No. 2. Don't know. It sounds like Homer, don't it? No. 1. Yes, but he did n't write it; it must be by Matthew Arnold, or some of those English fellows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...duck, I 've a little plan, and I want to tell you all about it. I see poor little things wandering about with lots of books under their arms and a very dazed and unhappy expression of countenance. They tell me they are called sub-Freshmen, - things just like Freshmen, only younger and smaller, and trying very hard to be really Freshmen, just like a tadpole tries to be a frog. They have to learn all sorts of things, - Ethics and Dentistry and Agriculchar, and another kind of culchar that they learn in the pretty building with the bell. Among...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ANNEX ON SUB-FRESHMEN. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...want you to print this, like an old dear, because you 're so full of influence and bright ideas and cleverness and things, that everybody minds everything you say, at least the Faculty and the Bursar do. But I must n't chatter. There's that darling Professor Giggles calling me for Domestic Astronomy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ANNEX ON SUB-FRESHMEN. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

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