Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lost-Will the gentleman who took by mistake a black stiff hat from the library Monday afternoon please leave it at the library or leave word there...
Lost-Will the gentleman who took by mistake a black stiff hat from the library Monday afternoon please leave it at the library or leave word there...
...examination, even if the windows are not open. Besides, the cold seems much more severe to a man who is sitting on a hard bench, cramped and motionless, than it does to another man who has the opportunity of walking about and thus preventing his limbs from becoming stiff with the cold. It is all very well for a proctor to walk up and down and criticise the action of men who turn up their coat-collars, but let the proctor sit down for a few hours and endeavor to hold a pen in his benumbed fingers, and I think...
...town, each college consisting of a chapel, library, dining or great hall, quadrangle and dormitories. Balliol and Merton divide the honor of being the oldest colleges, as the former was founded in 1260 and the latter four years afterward. The examinations for entrance to Balliol are unusually "stiff" and her graduates generally rank high upon the honor-roll in the university examinations. Merton boasts of the finest chapel, the choir and stained-glass being particularly good, and it is of this college that Dr. Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was warden. Oriel, founded in 1324, ranks...
Lost.-Will the gentleman who wore off by mistake a "Collins and Fairbanks" high stiff hat, somewhat too large for him, from the shelf at the upper end of Memorial on Monday, at dinner, please wear it to dinner tonight and exchange it for his own, thereby relieving the owner of the missing one from the unpleasant necessity of wearing a hat that is too small...