Word: sapient
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge at all this fall, else he could not have failed to notice that the management of the foot-ball team has been better this year than it has for a long time. With all due respect to the mature years-and perhaps gray hair-of our sapient friend, I cannot help thinking that he does not know what he is talking about. He says that the players have been "constantly changed about during the past fortnight," and that, when he was asked "who were going to play against Princeton on Saturday," he had to guess, and "probably guessed wrong...
...substantially the same as in England, and where the standard of the bar is notoriously but little inferior. One of these gentlemen has for some years had a professional income of pound15,000 per annum, and the other holds a judicial appointment; and yet neither, according to the sapient decision of an examination, could be trusted to conduct a case...