Word: owned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WE were sorry to see that an account appeared in one of the Boston daily papers, during the summer, of the evil practices of a certain instructor in German, now no longer connected with the college. It is still more to be regretted that there is every reason to believe...
Columbia. - The victory which this despised crew obtained at Henley is now a matter of history. But when we think of the auspices under which they went to England, - the papers crying them down, outsiders considering their expedition the height of folly, and even their own friends and college mates...
The sound of one's own voice is generally so delightful that many persons are unmindful of its effect on the weary listener, who has unfortunately been bound a captive to the prosy tyrant's ambition for a subject.
To some extent this curse contains the seeds of its own destruction, for prosy talkers soon become known, and are anxiously avoided as a pest. But they cannot always be evaded, for prosiness is not wholly confined to talkers, although with them it is most common. But in books, and...
THE Past, the Past, is all mine own;