Word: said
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...CONTRIBUTOR to the Advocate is said to be in the habit of sitting with his feet on the table, because he does not consider it democratic that the feet should be permanently below the head...
...reverence and love" them, and wherein lies the "absurdity" or the "hypocrisy" of their classmates' setting up tablets to their memory? That such a reply was made by so high an authority I imagine to be largely owing to the time at which it was made. As the Nation said, it is to a great degree a question of feeling, and we must remember feeling has changed since then. We have gone along with marvellous strides in the last two years. Celebrations like that on the 17th of last June, and speeches like those of General Sherman and Fitzhugh...
...walk in, which we did. We found there eight or ten young fellows sitting around, smoking tobacco, with the smoke of which the room was so full that you could hardly see; and the whole house smelt so strong of it, that when I was going up stairs I said, 'This is certainly a tavern.' We excused ourselves that we could speak English only a little, but understood Dutch or French, which they did not. However, we spake as well as we could. We inquired how many professors there were, and they replied not one, that there was no money...
...these I had waded through, my chum giving, from time to time, a grunt of satisfaction or more frequently of mingled pity and disgust, when my eye fell upon a poem. "Shall I read you this?" I said. "O, skip the poetry!" was his answer. "But you might at least hear the title," said I. "Well, what is it," growled he. I said humbly, "Lines to a Fading Rose"; it begins...
...course I do not suppose that all that has been said will meet with every one's approval, but what ought to be urged upon the Corporation and the students is the formation of some definite constitution, which shall explain the powers, duties, and responsibility of the Corporation, the Directors, and the Steward, and in which provision shall be made for stated meetings of the Association, at which the Directors, the Auditor, and, if necessary, the Steward shall present reports, and which shall give an opportunity for a fair, open discussion of the condition of the Association. I believe that...