Word: suit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wind the watch, the other to turn the hands. To wind the watch, you simply put the key in the lower hole, and, whenever you have any leisure time, wind away. (The mainspring was broken.) You also see the advantage of being able to set the time to suit yourself, by means of the power to turn the hands in the upper hole. These holes serve also as a means of ventilation to the inside of the watch, thus keeping up a lively circulation. Now, my friends, what am I offered...
...tried to press my suit...
...suit the youthful student mind...
...urge my suit, and show as proof...
...present form, the Elective Pamphlet is little more than a bare list of the different courses, and it gives the least possible assistance to a student in selecting his studies. If the student be a Freshman, it is doubly hard to make a selection of studies that will suit him; because he knows few upper classmen from whom to get information about the different courses. Take, for example, the following from the Elective Pamphlet:* "NATURAL HISTORY 4. Geology. Three times a week. Professor SHALER. Course 4 can be taken twice a week, omitting the field work, if notice to that...