Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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One of the religious societies here has published a pamphlet, showing that, on the principles of the gyroscope, we are liable every time we dance and get to whirling fast to whop over on to our heads and spin there.
You asked me how we liked the fellows here. Generally speaking, there is very little love lost between us. (There are one or two brilliant exceptions, of course, but I reserve my accounts of them till Christmas vacation.) They take extraordinary pains to jeer at us and snub us at...
One drawback to our progress here is the bashfulness of the instructors. When we advance an opinion in the class-room, and back it up with argument, the professor appears to draw back into his shell, and to decline controversy with us, because we are ladies. They need n't...
My chum has gone down to get some lumber to board up our keyhole. These Hollis keyholes are about the size of a window.
I'm dying for a smoke, and as I have n't any tobacco of my own, I think I'll close and go over to my Freshman's to roll a cigarette.