Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hearts and excellent appetites, the evening will wear happily away, and when the lanterns begin to fall our guests will reluctantly depart from the scene of revelry. If a cruel fate decides the contest otherwise, the result will be - But no, we decline to consider this side of the question. We rejoice that "our latest, largest class" is after all not to "dip out like a penny candle," and we sincerely trust that the 22d of June will long be remembered by the Class as the peaceful ending of an unpleasant controversy, and the happy termination of four eventful years...
...call the same paper to account for publishing a statement wholly false, - a statement which no college paper should have published without first having verified it. As for our Nine, every one of them was in bed in good condition by ten o'clock on the evening in question...
...width, 23 1/2 inches; weight, 225 pounds. This is undoubtedly one of the finest eight-oars ever built. On the paper boat also the makers seem to have expended all their skill. The crew now have an opportunity of fairly testing the two shells, and deciding the much disputed question of the comparative merits of cedar and paper for boat building. Mr. W. B. Close, of the Cambridge (England) University crew, was at the boat-house last Monday...
...enlivened by "the wit of Charles Dudley Warner, and the speeches of other distinguished men." There is sarcasm somewhere, but whether it is that Mr. Warner's remarks do not deserve to be called "a speech," or that the other gentlemen cannot be called witty, - this is a question we shall not attempt to solve...
...this mortification comes from knowing where Kars is. I put my map and newspaper in the waste-paper basket; and, study being out of the question on such an oppressive afternoon, I betake myself to my lounge and try to get a nap. I am having the most delicious doze you can imagine, dreaming, yet conscious that I am dreaming, when, after delivering a kick at the door that nearly breaks it in, the noisiest man in the class enters, slams the door, seizes me by the shoulder, and wants me to go to walk. I give a grunt which...