Word: misses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...important reason for performing the Greek play at all is the instruction which would be imparted by it to the students, the easier the access to the performance, the better; and just in so far as the access is made more difficult, just in so far does the performance miss a good part of its purpose. Therefore it must seem to all unfortunate that the gentlemen having the undertaking in charge have not been able, because of financial necessity, to sell the tickets at such a price as would enable all members of the University to see the play...
...Miss Meeker had but little strength left after these announcements, but she managed to say, "My dear, I have lived in Cambridge for thirty years, and never, never yet have I ventured to cross the College Yard, and you - you - " (here the good lady's feelings overcame her, and she resorted once more to the smelling-bottle...
...going through the College Yard (here Miss Meeker reached convulsively for her smelling-bottle), all the young men were coming out. They kept looking at me, and one of them said to another, 'coy, coy.' Was that Latin, auntie...
CHAPTER III.Tootsy had been in Cambridge for some time, and had been present at several tea-drinkings and other wild gayeties of this dissipated town. To be sure, she had caused her Aunt Prudence no little uneasiness on several occasions, and, as Miss Meeker herself expressed it, had actually made her grow thin (an operation which would seem to a casual observer very difficult of accomplishment...
...college. I have a dog, you know; he and myself never part company; he clings constantly to my arms; we can't leave each other for a moment. Of course I go into town occasionally to take dinner at Parker's, the grub in Cambridge is so deucedly poor." Miss Tootsy had not caught the first part of this remark, and rather misinterpreted Freshy's meaning. "I am delighted to learn that you do 'grub' in the Library; so many of your fellow-students seem to neglect their opportunities, it is really shameful." Before '84 could recover from this shock...