Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...contrary, who has in the savings-bank just money enough to pay his college bills, cannot ask for this privilege. And yet A. B., it may be, has a rich uncle, who, as is tacitly understood, will see that he wants nothing, and will give him a salaried place in his counting-room the moment he graduates; while C. D. must incur the cost of studying a profession, and will have a mother and sisters dependent upon him for support. It is needless to multiply illustrations to show that restricted scholarships may give no encouragement to students who have most...
...PHILIP, having exhausted the scanty advantages of Oxford, followed the example of the great Flavius Josephus, and went to Cambridge. The records of his life at this place are scanty. Devotion to study seems to have injured his health, for the college book sets him down as "greaviuslie trubbled by ye cattarrhhe in ye Wintrie Wether." We find, also, that he was on terms of intimacy with the leading men of the college, especially with a certain Decanus, - a man whom history passes over in silence, but who apparently was an instructor in ethics. This worthy man often invited young...
...words were said by a venerable Mollah, who is their chief, and whom they call El Peebhoh. The young men were grieved and looked in their hats. I, as you know, could not unwind my turban in a public place, but I took off my slipper and gazed in that. I presume he was cursing them. Some yawned and got behind pillars, while others took from their pockets books of charms, no doubt to avert the imprecation...
Then followed a curious rumbling from a set of pipes at the back of the mosque, and this grieved all the youths still more, while some, who sat by the pipes, opened their mouths in agony, but made no sound, respecting, doubtless, the sacredness of the place. This exercise, which seems to have no object, they call in their language Pehn, which means distress or tribulation. As this ceased the young men dashed out, some clearing me at a bound...
...left the mosque as best I could, and, putting the finger of perplexity in the mouth of deliberation, I asked a harmless-looking youth of the tribe called Soffamaw, what it was the will of the Mollahs of the place that I should do next. "Oh!" said he, (and may the Prophet singe his beard!)* "you must go to Or-phiz; every one goes to Or-phiz. Knock at the door, and ask the reverend Mollah with the white beard for his wife, the moon-faced Messisahriz." By the word wife these dogs mean the principal lady of the harem...