Word: never
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rage of collections is the rage of the age," said my companion, as we were walking home from a lecture on the phonograph; "you've never collected anything, why don't you now start a collection of autophones...
...Autophones?" said I, "what in the world are autophones? I never before heard of such a thing...
...prettier picture never...
Bicycle Race. - It is to be hoped that this race will fill well, and that all those who start will finish. A race is never won until you've passed the post, and even if beaten it looks much better to see a man ride his race out pluckily, and not give it up because he is not ahead...
...manner of a parable: There were two sections, Freshman year, - in the one, passages were constantly omitted; in the other, those only were avoided which were wholly unprofitable; in the first, the order to omit was always the signal for laughter and "wooding up"; in the second, there was never the least disorder of any kind when a slightly improper passage was read. I leave it to the instructors to find the interpretation, and will only say that, if they continue to treat us as school-boys, - or, rather, as school girls, - they must not be surprised at occasional boyish...