Word: stander
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman-sophomoric rejoicings are now happily past. All honor to this true Harvard spirit so manfully expressed one Monday evening which led an admiring by-stander to inquire with interest, "Are those the Harvard students?" We ask pardon if, in our Monday's issue, the unanimous sentiment of the CRIMSON there expressed, was displeasing to anyone, especially to those hospitable freshmen and those quiet and complaisant sophomores and upperclassmen who so thoroughly appreciate the best means of preserving the honor and advancing the real interests of the university, against which the CRIMSON has so treasonably spoken...
...take them; and he only cares to keep them there till they have served their purpose at the next examination. How different was the way in which Macaulay and his sister read! ' When they were discoursing together,' says Mr. Trevelyan, 'about a work of history or biography, a by-stander would have supposed that they had lived in the times of which the author treated, and had a personal acquaintance with every human being who was mentioned in his pages...