Word: returning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Nutter, '85, will probably return from Europe, and rejoin his class in June...
Study the mother. Remember well what passes. Be a man of as much ease as possible. Thursday. Return to Glasgow. See High Church. and particularly the paintings, and put half a crown into the box at the door. Friday. Come back in the fly. N. B. You are to keep and exact account of your charges." The energy with which these short sentences succeed one another show how much Boswell was moved. And yet, he did not quite lose his head. "Study the mother," he says impressively, and "Keep an exact account of your charges...
...summons a friend to help him. His friend was to visit the 'divinity' at her home, and plead for him; and Boswell sent him the following "Instructions:" "Set out in the fly on Monday morning. Take tickets for Friday's fly. Eat some cold victuals. Wednesday. Breakfast at 8; return at nine; Thomas will bring you to Adamtown a little after eleven. Send up your name. Give Miss Blair my letter. Salute her and her mother; ask to walk. Talk of my mare, the purse, the chocolate. Tell, you are my very old and intimate friend. Praise...
...question, What shall we do with our parents, is of the greatest importance to those of us who are about to graduate. A young man rarely realizes its full suggestiveness until after his return home from college. In the careless days of early boyhood, the momentous issues of life, of which this is one, are not anticipated, or if so, only with a soothing sense of great distance...
...final bout between Paine and Blossom was marked by heavy hitting. Blossom evidently had sparred but little, and relied upon his right hand to knock out his opponent. He not only was unsuccessful, but was slugged severely in return by Paine, who then...