Word: queered
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...ministry. And little Hope came running to meet me the other day with the strange question, "Is n't Harvard the best college in the world, Mr. Tournville?" I suppose they had been quarrelling a little, for tear-drops glistened on Charity's long lashes. They're queer girls! I don't see why they should get excited on the education question. I 'm surprised, too, that they speak to me so spitefully about the "Annex;" I don't understand them...
...College buildings we pay decidedly more than a business value. I cannot believe that A. really thinks that "the only object of the College in having dormitories is to keep down room-rents in Cambridge." If it is, the method of securing that beneficent end is decidedly queer. I can hardly believe, either, that a subscription of even $20,000 by the present Senior Class would have the effect of lowering room-rents. At any rate, I have not faith enough that this would be the result to be willing to contribute my share of the sum needed to make...
...reputation is universally known and recognized. The opinions of all who have had any dealings with her are identical, and we are sorry that it is not better. . . . The attempt to lay everything to the fact of playing with fifteen instead of eleven is decidedly weak. It seems queer that it happens only when the Yale fifteen are concerned. It does not lie in the number, but in the men themselves. It requires only a little common-sense to see this. Eleven men could make the game fully as unpleasant as fifteen. We need only quote the words...
...Venus and red-lipped Mars."SOME queer subjects are worked into the editorials of college papers. The Princetonian has one on a circus that is coming their way. The College Argus turns itself into a Republican "organ" for the occasion, and grinds out six columns of wrath and words on the town elections...
Really feels extremely queer...