Word: pile
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ethics of a question is." We heartily agree with him. It is much easier to sit in an easy chair, but if we sit at our desk - in our own room to - and discard the easy chair, isn't it rather hard on "'88" if we get the very pile of books out for consultation that "'88" wants...
There are two hundred or more students in History 13, and let us suppose that there are twenty-five that "'88" will not term "lazy." How is that pile of books to be distributed at the close of the day? "'88" secures three out of five, let us say, and '89 takes the rest, and then they sit down at their desks - in their own room - and when the unfortunate twenty three men cry out for general reading they say: - 'Lo! you are lazy - look at us - we work - why don't you?" "'88" now says with the utmost truth...
...tails attached. The procession marched from its rendezvous at some point in the city out to the college grounds to the solemn strains of the dead march. Torches were carried, red light, and other fire-works displayed. Arrived at the campus, the coffin was placed upon a tall funeral pile which had been prepared, the match applied, and while the flames were consuming the pyre, a funeral oration was pronounced over the dead. A bright man was always chosen for funeral orator, and the speeches delivered were frequently extremely witty. Following the oration there was singing and general rejoicing; after...
...fire in the lumber pile behind the Physical Laboratory yesterday, caused some excitement among the men who were at work there...
...that he is not the only person in existence who is likely to want any particular book. There are very few men who are so thoroughly self-engrossed that they forget this fact; but we have heard of some, we regret to say, who, ensconcing themselves behind a huge pile of reserved books and settling down for an afternoon's work, are audacious enough to put on an air of offended privilege if any one asks them if he can be allowed to look at one of the books; and even more, have the unscrupulousness to say that the books...