Word: make
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Next came a dashing fellow whose chin was elevated, and whose mouth was moulded in an habitual sneering smile. This was a Wit and a Critic. "Bold knight of the quill," said he, "take my advice: make your paper caustic and spicy; make fun of the literary men, the athletes, the bummers, the professors, and the college papers. Make fun of college life. Sneer at it, my boy, and your paper will go. Here is a light article on 'Lies in Literary Life, or a Factitious Faculty,' and a few good things for the Brevity Column...
...probable that another Hare and Hounds meet will be held this fall, and before the next one we would like to make one or two suggestions: first, that the time allowance given to the hounds should be lengthened to ten minutes, and, secondly, that instead of enticing embryo athletes into a run of fifteen miles, with a notice of a course of "about six miles," some more definite idea of the distance be given. Would it not be well to name the place furthest off (for instance, Waverley) that the course would touch, so that a man could have some...
...enter seems to us one of the best that has yet been devised on this side of the water. Not only does it promote acquaintance and a friendly feeling among men from different parts of the country, but it should also tend to improve our records, and eventually make them equal, or even surpass, those of the English Universities. The spirit of competition ought to draw out the best efforts of the representatives of each college, and the honor of winning in such a contest should be sufficient incentive for hard training on the part of those who intend...
...trew score of felawes make their waye...
...Prof. Ko Kun Khua exclaimed, 'Oyougohel-leehelleehelly.* All rotte. Haree-hounde make alle me pupelee cutte...