Word: lingered
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...pleasure at learning of a new elective in Oral Discussion was destroyed when I found that it was for Seniors alone, and that I could not take it next year, but must linger about the gates of this paradise until I become a Senior before gaining admittance...
...Hazing,' 'rushing,' secret societies, society initiations and badges, and the other barbarities and puerilities, which still linger in most American colleges, are unknown at Oxford and Cambridge; and the relations between students and teachers, undergraduates, graduates, and dons, are unreserved and strongly friendly...
...They linger for a while...
That expectations linger...
...Sweden, Britain, garden, vessel, are extensively pronounced Swed'n, Brit'n, gard'n, vess'l. The syllable ing they abbreviate into en. They also omit the aspirate in words beginning with wh; for example, wheat and wharf are made weat and warf." Do any traces of these peculiarities still linger among Bostonians...