Word: royall
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Diaphanous in Dress." I tried the diversion of repeating my fables for French 1, but - mirabile dictu - found no amusement in that. Were examinations anything but vexation of spirit? Should we ever be able to get "the maximum of knowledge with the minimum of grind"? Happy thought! Behold a royal road to learning! Let all your friends be grinds, - grinds pure, undefiled. Their brains, you know, when crammed for an examination, are only sponges dipped in a saturated solution of knowledge: what does not drip into your ear you can easily wring out. At last I have found...
SEARCH well the proud and royal diadem...
Illustrations might be multiplied ad infinitum, but they are obvious to every one interested in the subject. The present system leads directly to the selection of "soft electives," and favorite instructors known as "easy markers," - a royal road indeed to high college rank...
...graduation printing in the latest style of the art-preservative. We cordially extend an invitation to the survivors of the Lampoon to call and examine the largest printing establishment in New England. Rand, Avery, & Co., Printers by contract to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and by courtesy to their Royal Nibs - the undergraduates of Harvard University. - Courier - Journal...
...long before we came here; long before it was suggested to the great Mr. Cornell to found a family monument at Ithaca; long before Cornell became as great as it is to-day. The 'bandy-legged individual' on the cover represents the venerable Governor Yale, an elderly gentleman, a royal governor that befriended Yale College when the noble red-man built his camp-fire on the very spot where Cornell's great training-school for mechanics stands...