Word: nous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meagre allowance of cash, and mental abilities, but with a plentiful endowment of muscle. It is tolerably obvious that, under the old-time order of things, his progress to knowledge will be beset with difficulties of a financial nature. But under the new system no such hindrance exists. "Nous avons change tout cela, says Cornell, "A man may come to our college, poor, but deserving. What shall he do to obtain the necessaries of student life? Simply this, he may enter the feather-weight sparring, and win an easy chair; in the middle-weight he may secure a clock...
...BONO PUBLICO ABDICATES.Entre nous, Mr. HERALD, isn't it getting to be a little too much to ask of a couple of mild philanthropists and reformers like ourselves that we should carry on the whole of this agitation and investigation into the Memorial Hall board business? Am I to write eternal communications, and are you to indite endless editorials and reports with no better results than we have as yet attained? Before we came to college it was different with us writers for the press, when, at our slightest hint of dissatisfaction innumerable mass meetings and investigating committees...