Word: stay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...find things the same way. There are lots of other men who stop exercising promptly when the bell rings, who yet are obliged to take a cold bath or none. Of course they might leave off exercising sooner, but the crews have to be there at certain times and stay till their work is finished...
...unaffected and simple, with all their learning, and not in the least like the 'airs' of the students they teach. The freshmen have the grandest airs, and are the busiest boys in college. They are always overwhelmed with 'positive engagements,' and they 'have but a moment to stay, you know,' when they make calls. One cannot imagine these charming, simplemannered, unfashionably-dressed professors ever having been 'airy' young freshmen; and it is just as impossible to fancy these young students ever growing large enough to become charming, simple-mannered professors, wearing old-fashioned clothes...
There is no change in the situation at Adelbert College. The faculty are not disposed to reinstate the juniors, and the students stay away from recitations...
...prints a Greek puzzle in its "Answers to Correspondents" column which opens as follows: "Three men are playing poker, jack-pots, and, in a jack-pot, A is dealing; B and C both pass; A then picks up his hand and opens the pot; B passes, and says 'I stay in;' A picks up cards to deal." etc. We shouldn't think enough readers of a sporting paper understood Greek to make the printing of such problems an object; but the journal may have a large circulation among college students. - [Norristown Herald...
...streaming in during the first five or ten minutes without any respect for the feelings of the lecturer, first of all, as well as of those of the persons already assembled. When an hour is posted for a reading it is everybody's duty to be on time or stay away, and not to prove a public nuisance by coming into a room in the middle of the evening, and then deliberately climbing down to the seats farthest removed from the door, as some will persist in doing...