Word: sons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fight between a freshman and a professor's ten year old son occurred on the campus last Thursday noon. After a severe tussle the freshman gained the advantage. If the boy had been one year older he would have wiped up the slush with the '89 man. A snow ball is a very small thing to cause such a waste of physical energy. Cornell...
...ingenuous mistakes which I noted while correcting the French paper set for the Harvard admission examinations last June. The 500 or more papers which were written contained every variety of mistake, but there were two sentences which were the special stumbling-ground. "La pauvre femme, sentent la raison de son mari, no bougea et se contenta d'ecarter un peu son rideau pour voir sortir, etc., gave rise to "fearing for the reason of her husband," and "appreciating the reason of his marriage," and the words "ecarter un peu son rideau" gave large opportunities to the guessers. Among the many...
...second sentence was as follows: "Le pauvre garcon . . . se tournaitet retournait sur son coussin, envoyant de gros soupirs et gemissant sans pouvoir se reviellier." Naturally, in several instances, the poor boy was "reflecting about his cousin," but the prize for ingenuity goes in this translation of the italicized words: "dreaming of great suppers, and groaning without being able to relieve himself...
...general idea men of other colleges have of Harvard, is that it is a place where no man should go unless he is abundantly supplied with cash, or has a fond and wealthy parent not too careful in examining his son's accounts, and that with this condition favorable, Harvard is a good place for a man to have a good time, and to see something of the world, but that he must do his studying elsewhere. Nothing is more erroneous than this idea. Harvard is a place where, in point of wealth, the extremes meet, and that is just...
...ratio. Indeed, of late years the cost of board at New Haven and Cambridge has been reduced, and the co-operative principle has been applied in other ways to the great advantage of slender purses. At the Springfield meeting was cited the case of a father who sent one son to Yale and the other to Amherst, and found the latter's bills the larger. Of course no generalization could be ventured upon one such individual case, but we suspect that a careful comparison would show that, however much the average expenditures of a class in the larger college...