Word: said
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Glee Club numbers sixteen members, and is said to sing very well...
...deemed stupid obstinacy on the part of Harvard boating-men; and, second, because I could not claim to have been a University oar. But now that the idol of the Harvard oar has received one square blow, I am tempted to endeavor to administer another, hoping thereby to knock said idol completely off its pedestal, and smash it into flinders. Complete iconoclasm is what is needed...
Neither of these classes have any time to spare to think of their behavior. As long as they do nothing downright indecent they are contented; and I am sorry to say that the world is very apt to be contented too. At the same time, as somebody or other said, there was never a spot on earth so wicked that a man could not live a good life there if he wanted to; and there never was a place where manners were so horribly bad that a man who chose to be well-bred could-not succeed. I have seen...
...Then she said in a pet, 'You may trace your lore...
...drawing, and no corkscrew could be found to fit. I offered to try to open it with a common screw and a string, as I had seen a friend do here at college. I tried and succeeded. "Thank you," cried the little girl. "O, how nice!" said her older sisters. The cousin smiled contemptuously, and observed, "Quite an undergraduate accomplishment, - opening bottles!" The little girl did not understand his drift; the older sisters did, and looked compassionately towards me. I felt and looked guilty, and very soon took my leave...