Word: means
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...visited me, and I would often sit for hours by the fire, thinking of former times and gazing at the ancient initials, guessing what sort of a fellow "J. C. W., 1792," was; whether he was a dig or a loafer, and whether he had a chum. I mean to go to the Library some day and learn all about J. C. W. and his college career. I have not time to tell of the long, late, lovely grinds I had here afterwards when I became a great student, nor of the quiet games at chess with the proctor...
Their homes, though mean, are all their...
...purpose. After he has made a good impression he starts down street, stopping long enough to get a cigar charged; he circulates around until the free soup is ready at Eli's, and then slips in and enjoys himself for an hour, drinking on a friend in the mean time. There are plenty of them here in college...
THERE has been recently established in our University a course of much interest to the student at large, and especially to the student of languages; I mean the course in Romance Philology. It presents the double advantage of being attractive in itself, and under the direction of a competent and agreeable professor; and as the first course of the kind established in this country, it has the feature of novelty...
...degree been successful in my endeavors, you should now have a clear idea of the state of public instruction in France and of the manner in which it is given. Without any circumlocution, without any false pride, I have shown you the defects of our system. Does this mean that I regard the French people as inferior to the other peoples of the earth? Not at all. I believe that our intelligence is as great, our mind as open, as that of any other nation in the world. Simply, we have never been able, or known how, to take advantage...