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Word: purely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Full many a Fresh with greatest cheek e'er seen The class of '83 within its depths doth bear, Full many a dollar have they, bright and pure and clean, Which neither the Ball Club nor the Boat Club nor the Junior Prom. Com. nor the Courant nor the Record nor the Lit. nor the News nor anything under heaven yet discovered, can from their pockets tear. - Courant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...shining in the pure moonlight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POEMS BY EMINENT HANDS. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...others, who are far better able, refuse to contribute at all. Among the latter are the men who shout loudest over Harvard's victories. If these men refuse from a total lack of all class or college feeling, they deserve the most sincere pity; but if they refuse from pure selfishness, they deserve only contempt. Hardly less culpable are those men who, after subscribing, elude the collectors in every possible way, and subject them to continual trouble and annoyance. We hope this year to see a favorable change. We remind the University that among the many interests which make demands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...French 1, but - mirabile dictu - found no amusement in that. Were examinations anything but vexation of spirit? Should we ever be able to get "the maximum of knowledge with the minimum of grind"? Happy thought! Behold a royal road to learning! Let all your friends be grinds, - grinds pure, undefiled. Their brains, you know, when crammed for an examination, are only sponges dipped in a saturated solution of knowledge: what does not drip into your ear you can easily wring out. At last I have found the key to - "Your turn, if you pleas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A REMINISCENCE. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...With a pure delight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LA SERENADE. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

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