Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upper classes. Last year the flag was placed on the top of the flag pole on the green, and to make sure that no athletic sophomore should tear it down the halyards were cut. This was of no avail; one of their number climbed the pole like a monkey and captured the trophy. On reaching the ground a rush was made for the prize, and during the melee the police arrived on the scene making several arrests. The students were made to pay heavily for their sport and the New Haven treasury received a handsome amount to replace the halyards...
...kill yourself," says he, "as to kill any outher mon. If you kill any outher mon, you can repint, but you can never repint whin you have killed yoursilf." John says there was once a man here at Harvard who tried to make people think that men came from monkeys. "What was his name, John?" "I have forgott'n, sorr." "Was it Darwin?" "Ah! yes, Dorwhin. Well, this man went to Californy and dug in the ground twenty feet - twenty feet, sorr! and he came upon a skull of a mon that looked jist like a monkey's and thin...
...dwarfs and twists the whole nervous system. In this weakness the heart shares, and many a weak and trembling heart, which finally stops for very weariness, owes its weakness to this powerful and deadly nervine. It does not kill at sight, but, none the less, it does harm. A monkey will eat tobacco with impunity, but it does not follow that human beings will bear it. And even men are careful about the juice or oil. "Keep thy heart with all diligence," may apply to physical no less than to moral well-being...
...knew, kindly suggested that I should look as natural as I could. I thanked her with a glance, and proceeded to withdraw all intelligence from my face. This expression proved very satisfactory. All the class worked steadily. The result was, I am confident, the missing link between man and monkey! I have reserved that look for use at recitations. The only question that bothers me is, When the intelligence left my face, where did it go? Perhaps...