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...exclaimed the ranger, starting back in surprise, "don't use it?" "No, never." "Don't you use it in no form whatever?" "No, I don't." "Well, then," returned the man, eying Mr. H. with a suspicious look, "there's one thing; I wouldn't trust you nigh my whiskey bottle...
They say Yale influence is all powerful in the West. This pleasing delusion is well nigh shattered when we hear that there are five Harvard men on the South Side Line of Chicago street cars. We tremble for our prestige. - [Courant...
...happened that the instruction given at these conferences coincided very well with the courses I had intended pursuing at Harvard; but how to obtain admittance to them was a problem that seemed to me well nigh incapable of being solved. I bethought myself of a certificate furnished me by our dean, and with a modest mien, determined to put it to practical use. With my indifferent French I explained with some difficulty to the authorities my desires, displayed the dean's certificate and the wonders of a systematically arranged catalogue of an American university, being exceedingly careful to give them...
...following item from the Yale News needs no comment: "At the end of last term two members of '85, bent upon a night's work at compositions, desiring something in the way of stimulants, provided themselves with two bottles of ginger ale. They were found naturally in a well-nigh exhausted state the following morning...
...great danger is that, after the novelty of the first week's work in the gymnasium has worn off, the interest among the candidates will begin to flag, and that through this neglect the winter's practice will be well nigh useless. To prevent this the management must use every endeavor, and from the interest taken in sports generally by '86 it seems likely that such endeavors would bring about the wished-for result...