Word: stiles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marriage, "In Nuptias Blri were Honoratifsimi Georgil Downing... Campo exploratoris Generaliffimi." Equally interesting is the tract, "Reply of Sir George Downing Knight and Baronet Extraordinary from His Majesty of Great Britain to the Remarks of the Deputies of the Estates General upon his Memorial of December 20, 1664, Old Stile." This was printed in London "Anno...
...said who was they giving it to. And he said me, did I want to go. Is it a union dance I asked, remembering that my mother draws the line somewhere. No he said it was not a union dance but another kind of dance in the real colleege stile, so I said where and he said at Brattle Hall the night of the 14th. So I said will it be ruff as those club dances and he said No it wouldn't because their wouldn't be none of the clubs there. Ha. Ha. So I said yes since...
...Plan examinations. But extraordinary brilliance will never be required for admission to Harvard; and as the sons of graduates have apparently inherited sufficient intelligence to follow their fathers in the past, it seems hardly necessary or appropriate that they be branded "lame ducks" and "helped over the stile" in the future...