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Word: man (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...down and decipher the old scrap, a la Champollion. Here's a convenient tomb for a sofa. Great gad! think of sitting on a man...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD COLLEGE. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

...good man had as many virtues as the windows in the Memorial Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD COLLEGE. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

...refers to an equal facility in the performance of duties professional and ecclesiastical, and the last implies that the "thou" referred to was the first visible embodiment of a type which had previously been dimly comprehended. It must be a satire on some Yale instructor. No doubt some Yale man wrote it and lost it on his visit here with the Nine. It's written in blue ink, - of course a Yale man wrote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD COLLEGE. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

...course a Yale man wrote it. And yet the sentences are all grammatical; the second verse, too, has a classical touch, - a reference to one of Horace's odes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD COLLEGE. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

...sacrifice of their personal preferences - to elect soft courses. Already there are reports of Juniors who are about to change their "well-considered plans," and give up studies for which they have a taste for those which will insure them their A. B.'s. I know of one man who has made a specialty of English and Saxon studies, who had elected English 4 for next year. He has taken all the other courses in the English department, and was anxious to take this one, but felt it imprudent to risk his degree on one examination in a course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW MARKING REGULATIONS. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

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