Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...different are the tests by which we try our friends' characters! What different standards do we form, and how variously do we apply them! A man's taste in pictures, in tobacco, in wine, and in society, all serve as touchstones, to be applied to him by one or another of his friends. Mere acquaintances judge you by your gait, your clothes, the sound of your voice, the tie of your cravat, and the smoothness of your hair. And even in this they do not seem to be consistent, often applying the test in an exactly opposite manner to different...
...obliged to, and is a bummer; what particular line he pursues can be easily discovered by all his furniture except his book-case; and as we are more particularly concerned with this, we leave his species for the present, and shall describe the only other man who can be the possessor of text-books and nothing else. This is a grind of the narrow-minded sort, who studies all the time on the lessons which are set him, but whose mind is chained down to the recitations that he goes to from day to day. He studies French or German...
...books. I fear that the book-case is only there because it does harmonize with the room. I am afraid that the books, if not bought by the cubic foot, were purchased more for the sake of the gilded leather than the printed paper. Let us leave this man who, I cannot help thinking, notwithstanding his taste, to be a bit of a snob, and let us pass the evening with the friend whose book-case does not harmonize with his room, but is full of the best English books and a few from the "pleasant land of France...
...wonder what was the intention of the man who fitted up the interior of University, in putting the seats, in all the rooms where it was possible, so as to face the light...
Class Committee.THE Class Secretary requests the Seniors who have received blanks to write their lives as soon as possible and forward the blanks to the next man. If they cannot forward them conveniently he would like them to be returned to No. 7 Holworthy. The circulars need not be forwarded with the blanks. The lives when finished are to be handed in at No. 7 Holworthy...