Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...growth. It cannot be puffed up by money alone, but it needs a recognized intellectual superiority; neither can it flourish if it lacks financial support. Millionaires about to dial If you wish to leave a university behind you, take note of the fable of the frog and the ox. Puff not up the frog, but give good pasture to the ox.- Advertiser...
...dollars reward. Lost. - A white Spitz dog; answers to the name of Puff. The finder will receive the above reward by returning the dog to F. Becker, 786 Cambridge St., Cambridge...
...prostrate wielders of the mighty pen, he wiped a tear from his eye, and with drooping wings went out into the night. He left his card in the punch bowl, and beneath his name was scribbled: "Will call again, when you feel better, to see why you don't puff our last number...
...Amherst Student quietly gives its own institution a little puff in the following, and intimates that if Oscar desires to see an ideal student he must visit the bucolic glades of central Massachusetts : "Poor Oscar is slowly crystalizing his aesthetic idea of the American college student. Yet it is not to be expected that he has obtained all possible points from Harvard and Rochester. There are other institutions in the land...
...entertainment. After we had found that the report concerning the case of small-pox in college was all a humbug, we asked the officer on duty at the station in what respects the Harvard student of today differed from the student of years ago. "Well," he said, taking a puff at his cigar, "the students are a different lot altogether from what they used to be. There used to be a lot of those hot-blooded Southern fellows in college - fellows that had all the money they wanted, and who dared to do anything. They used to do things that...