Word: returning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...beauty gone, or at least going. At the end of the term my brain will be 'as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage.'" Many, I fancy, can sympathize with him when he says he got "a headache daily, without acquiring one practical truth or beautiful image in return...
...which few men certainly would not desire to have expunged from the Triennial Catalogue. It is a never-ceasing source of wonder what could have actuated the Faculty to disgrace the fair name of the College by giving President Grant a degree. Perhaps they expected that the Administration would return the compliment, and make one of our Professors a Brevet Brigadier-General. If they had any such hopes, they were sadly disappointed; the Administration did not live up to the bargain; the President, if he had chosen to, might have signed himself, to his last message, U. S. Grant...
...each class will knock its knees before this antediluvian shrine until the uselessness of the system has been demonstrated again and again. Really the men whose class lives would be most apt to be looked up are the very men who treat the Class Secretary to three lines, or return the immaculate sheets free from hieroglyphics but somewhat the victims of misplaced confidence. If the present graduating class should give up the old plan and adopt one similar to that proposed, its class-book might contain considerable valuable data, and not be a treasury of trash and nonsense...
...went on, after a long pull at the bottle, "it is two hundred years ago to-night since the Faculty took action on my case and expelled me from the college. I left, never to return again alive." He paused, and I tried to regain my self-possession. But he kept on without waiting for me to join in the conversation. "How often have I been summoned before the President for wearing London styles, fined for having on my back what the Overseers called ruffian-like and new-fangled fashions! How I used to spend my income in paying...
...Foot-Ball Twenty defeated the Pennsylvania University Team, November 11, by a score of six goals to none; time of game, 13 minutes. The return game, November 25, was also won by Princeton by the same score...