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Word: mensa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Such action by an American college is, at least, phenominal! How interesting it would be to go into a recitation room in that far-famed institution and find college students competing with ten year-old boys in our Latin School on mensa, amo, or the like. - Beacon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 6/12/1886 | See Source »

...Such a system as the new one proposed for admission requirements," says an exchange, "would let a man graduate at Harvard without ever parsing mensa or looking at a Greek alphabet; a consummation that President Eliot is known to have long devoutly wished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 5/9/1883 | See Source »

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