Word: oblivion
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...another eighty-four. It must require wonderful microscopy of discrimination to determine which student deserves the one per cent. It will not be long before this old-time spelling-school way of informing a man that he stands "one higher" than his classmate will have been consigned to oblivion, together with the other "relics of bygone barbarism," as an intelligent exchange...
...said. "I have no aversion to a Yale man. He emerges from oblivion, pins a few pieces of zinc on the front of his vest, sits for four years on a few inches of fence, gets a little blue cambric and has it charged, and then passes back into oblivion. No; I've nothing against a Yale...
...over me; but no Derby and dimples were there; instead, I heard a sweet, melodious voice floating down the hall: "If he goes at it in this way he's likely to get pretty well posted on bicycles." That was too much. With one feeble wail I passed into oblivion. . . . .I remained in oblivion three days, returning on Sunday; very opportunely, as the reduction of fares on the U. R. R. took effect on that day. I now sit in my window and watch the professors, and occasionally a student, go to recitation. Don't imagine that I'm wasting...
...Boston, i. e., the type-setters on the morning papers, and as you look out across Back Bay and try to discover, between the rays of the rising sun and waning moon, where blue meets blue, you are so carried away by the beautiful view that you fall into oblivion which lasts until the conductor calls out, "Harvard Square." Some men have been speculating in Sarah Bernhardt tickets, but if the Union railway will only agree to reserve seats in their cars, more money will be made by speculation in those tickets, although it is rumored that the company...
Whose tale is in oblivion hushed...