Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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THE class of '75 will have a supper at the Parker House on Friday evening of this week. It is expected that the destruction of crockery and glass ware, usual on such occasions, will be dispensed with.
OUR prayers, joined with those of the Advocate, have at length been answered. With great satisfaction we have counted, near Gray, five narrow planks, so skilfully arranged that he who steps thereon repents with wet feet. We have lost a fruitful subject for each number, but is our loss any...
BELOW is a specimen of orthography and geography at a recent examination for admission to Bowdoin College. The written papers on Geography contained the following: "Nare ganset," "Pernobscot," "Florady," "Mississuri," "Iterly." The Catskill Mountains were credited by one writer to Vermont; by another to Pennsylvania. The Alps to Asia, by...
IT may be news to some to learn that Chas. S. Sargent, Professor of Horticulture in Bussey Institute, makes the highest-priced butter sold in the United States. Price $1.15 per pound the year round.
A FEMALE student in a Michigan Medical College, getting tired of living single, bought a man for $20 last month. He was dead, and she wanted him to cut up and study over, a piece at a time.