Word: saws
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Then there's Van Boozle, - stylish fellow, - Bellows of the Glee Club, Brush of the Art Club, Bond of the Finance Club, and the rest. I was thinking them over, as I lay on the grass, when some one slapped me on the shoulder, and, looking up, I saw that contemptible little Browser of our class, - the scrubby man with the pug nose...
...Williams Athenaeum is devoted mainly to sarcastic allusions to the Faculty, who, it seems, have been treating the luckless students with great severity. Four Freshmen have been suspended for "'putting a wall between themselves and a college officer,' i. e. tossing ball by East College, and running when they saw him coming." The Glee Club, too, in order to pay off a debt, had arranged to give several concerts in the neighboring towns; but the permission of the Faculty was at first flatly refused, but finally was granted, with great reluctance, accompanied by a reprimand. The same august body...
...when Fredricus had taken away from himself the desire for eating and drinking, he saw next him a lovely maiden eating alone, and, Venus prompting him, he thus addresses her: "O Virgin, by what name shall I call thee? O thou a goddess surely! Art thou a sister of Phoebus, or one of the race of nymphs? O, be propitious, and whoever thou art, - brace up on your supper and take a stroll on deck...
...unmistakably. At the beginning of the first term, last October, the attention of the editors of the Crimson was called, by certain members of the Glee Club, to the anomalous proceedings of the "Arion Quartette" during the previous summer. The criticism with which the editors of your paper saw fit to visit that new musical society did not tend to ameliorate matters between the "Arion Quartette" and the Glee Club, and two first tenors, who belonged to both organizations, severed their connection with the Glee Club, and after resisting several entreaties to reconsider their action, consented to return only...
...hired Tommy Bond to come in as special student. Since that, our whole nine has become professional. "That fellow," pointing to a particularly villanous-looking specimen of the plug ugly, "is Mike Rooney the shortstop." I waited to hear no more, but turned and left the building. What I saw in the Yard and in Sever Hall I will reserve for another letter...