Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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The ministers of human fate
A CERTAIN professor, whose chin was wont to be graced by a flowing beard, has lately returned shorn of every vestige of his hirsute appendage. A Soph., meeting the aforesaid Prof., after a prolonged stare, and with a knowing wink to his Senior companion, burst out with "By Jove, that...
MANY warnings have failed to convince the careless student that it is no longer safe to live aperlo domo. Three years ago the burglaries were indeed few in number, but, like the murders which De Quincey has celebrated, of so artistic a character that they could not fail to command...
In this connection, though with no slanderous intent, we feel called upon to warn our fellow-students that it will soon be necessary to bid farewell to a College officer. The watchman is about to leave us. The Faculty feel that he has done well, that he has done more...
THE poet Gray wrote noble, thoughtful verses which have been engrafted upon our standard literature. We have noticed, however, the following lines from his ode on Eton College incorrectly applied, as we think, to the recent crisis of affairs brought on by financial difficulties:-