Word: parteing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Soon part with simple, plain Content...
...most exasperating. For weeks before the "Mid-Years," as the time approaches five minutes past the hour, a frequent succession of students rush wildly into Seve's, and breathlessly slap their specie on the counter, to the intense amusement of the clerks, who, always busily engaged in the back part of the store, are deaf to all prayers for haste. We know, from bitter experience, that it is absolutely impossible to think of getting the examination books until after having entered the recitation-room; when only the kindness of the instructor can save us from censure-marks. If there...
...farewell dinner of the Advocate to its Editors of '75. The affair was a success in every sense; the toasts being responded to with a grace rather unusual on such an occasion. The company evidently enjoyed itself, and the fresh sheets of the Advocate passed round during the latter part of the evening added a zest to the good fare with which we were entertained...
...daily expression in the jokes or grumblings of individuals. Why, then, does the anachronism still-exist of a rule in the Schedule of the Memorial Hall Association forbidding the use of alcoholic drinks among the diners at the Hall? In the old days, when the unbending sternness of one part of the community had led to disgraceful indulgence among those who refused to yield to such asceticism, it was well for the Faculty to prohibit all liquor at Commons; but times have changed, and a more rational temperance, not altogether due to the (so-called) "Temperance Party," has been adopted...
...played his part in the lover's school...