Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other Sophomore course, is intended as a preparation for those who have use for the language in their college studies. The object of this course is most commendable; but the recitations are conducted in such a dull, listless way that before many weeks have passed, most men become thoroughly sick of it. German III is intended to follow either of the two preparatory courses; but the course is so hard, and so large an amount of work is required in it, that few of those who have had only the training of Freshman and Sophomore years can pursue it with...
...great advantage is now open to the public in the establishment of a free clinic from nine to eleven on Tuesdays and Fridays. Horses brought to the hospital on those days, if sick or ailing, will be prescribed for free of charge. At no other time will attendance be free. The clinic was not possible until the new part was finished, owing to the lack of room in the hospital...
...inquiry as to his health, Prof, Hubner, anxious to air his familiarity with English, upon his knowledge and mastery of which he prided himself not a little, exclaimed, 'I am much in misery-I have a big pain in my trunk.' He meant to say, 'I am quite sick, having a severe pain in my chest.' Probably the modern senior's Greek and Latin are about as 'sick' as Prof. Hubner...
...York Herald of Tuesday morning appeared an article headed "Scare at Yale," in which it was stated that an epidemic of measles threatened the college. Only one man was sick, however, and fortunately there seems to be no danger that the disease will spread...
...Texas steer was loose in the street at the west end, in Boston, the other day, and it is unnecessary to say more of the way things were going on. A sick man in the house heard the disturbance, and, looking up wearily at nurse, said: "I do wish that Harvard student would go home." -Wooster Collegian...