Word: sanskrit
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...department, was virtually annihilated at 3.30 P.M. on Tuesday, when an enemy Gotha let fall a flight or poisoned shakespears. My aide, Corporal Jones, (he hasn't done so well since he left the Point after his team lost to Harvard) is carrying on with a paradigm of the Sanskrit ninth declension in his left breast...
...contrast to the figures for quiz up-keep there may be presented the total restricted and unrestricted expenditures for Sanskrit by the College which add up to $8.28. This sum in turn dwarfs the annual cost of equipment for the Board of Freshman Advisers which is with all required refinements included exactly...
...origins of the popular fear concerning Friday the thirteenth one would probably be forced to delve into the Sanskrit or worse. Suffice to say that it is doubtless the most prevalent example of universal phobia in the world. Even minds otherwise destitute of primitive prejudices based on fears are tinged with an irrational suspicion of the day and demonstrate strange stubborness in hesitating to take up any task with such an inauspicious beginning. It is a quite elemental but quite human emotion...
...office chair; fresh bottled-water for a thirsty professor; red and yellow chalk for the blackboards so plain that the students at the back of the room can see it; steel furniture for an anti-toxin laboratory; beakers, flasks, and evaporating dishes; 25 cases of books for the Sanskrit Department, printed in London and to be passed through the Custom House as nearly free of duty as possible. Are there blue books enough for the final examinations? Is there anything in that last glue we brought which will injure valuable prints that are to be mounted with it? "The last...
...speak French? Parlez vous Francais? No, don't clip the accompanying coupon, don't even bother to take another French course. Go, instead, to the Opera House and see the Guitrys. Then, if not before, you will realize that though it may be imperative to study Russian, Sanskrit, or Middle High German in order to make your way in the world, all an audience at such French plays needs is a program and two good eyes...