Word: purlieus
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...soft-sheed but sternsouled guardians who prowl the purlieus of the examination rooms, their cost for the past two semesters of 1926-27 amounted to $3.053.50. The monitors' price, if may be seen, approaches very nearly three times the stationery expense. Some rapid calculation demonstrates the entire outlay as $5.316.35 per College annum...
...passive. And the conditions which are responsible for this seeming apathy can hardly be regretted, for they are the vindication of scholastic independence. If the answer to the call of the Phillips Brooks House has been largely that of echo, it is not an echo engendered in the vast purlieus of an empty reading room: if the Harvard undergraduate is refusing to teach the youth of the slums, all that can be deplored is his selfishness in preferring to learn himself...
...point out that behind such preposterous euphemism as "He spoke as to cheek and chin of the joy of the mutational steel" when he might have said "He was clean shaven," Henry James concealed only a frustrated and mediocre intellect may be heresy to this day in the purlieus of Beacon Hill, but the fact remains and the judicious know...
...elementary knowledge of Latin and German and the patience of Job are the prerequisites for this course. Grubbing for roots may be an enjoyable task in pleasant sunny garden, but it is less happy in the dusty purlieus of the English language, except for those who have a natural bent for grubbing...
...there is no change. With Sunday still a blank, five days a week the Vagabond roams academic purlieus, poking his head into lecture rooms and art exhibits, and himself exhibiting a healthy interest in the things of the mind. But on Saturday, especially in the fall, all this generally goes off with the Friday night undressing, and Saturday's clean shirt brings with it a new character. Ice cream cones have vanished, and tub splashing is gone with all dead things, but the splashing spirit is still ready to splash...