Word: protegee
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English society is just now showing signs of great mortification over the escapades of its untamed protege, Oscar the Intense, among those "blawsted Americans." The Philistines never looked upon him with any degree of favor, but now the very elect are beginning to disown him. The former friends of his...
We are happy to announce that one of our students - a protege of ours - has undertaken the preparation of a new series of class-room anecdotes and ironclads (jokes) for the use of college professors. We predict for the work a rapid sale in this institution. - [Academica.
WE have hitherto refrained from saying any thing about the Harvard Union under its present management, because that body has been in the past so peculiarly the protege of the college press that we feared the mention of it had grown stale by repetition; but the recent debates held in...
He carried a heavy Roman sword with which to pry open cracks in doors. He was especially dangerous in unexpected attacks, ambuscades, &c. The next tent boasted as its occupant no less a person than Sir Johannes Ti de Gar. His armor, which had been presented to him by the...