Word: suited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thorough efficiency of the instructor; if not, Mr. "English 12" has no right to complain. The instructors at Harvard take the students to be more than mere school-boys, who require to be humored and lightly dealt with, lest they "go home and tell their Pa!" Perhaps it might suit our young Ajax were the instructor to say to him, "Oh, please excuse me, Mr. So-and-So, for mentioning it, I really hope you won't mind, but your work is not quite up to Dickens or Thackeray or Macaulay. It's really of no consequence, though...
...take on a very violent form. One chipper New Haven youth who is inclined to be something of a dude, and who is just entering upon his college career, was given a pretty sharp twirl by a party of Sophomores last Tuesday evening. They captured him with his bicycle suit on, took him around to a Broadway saloon and made him set the drinks up for the crowd. Then they made him "browse," and scan Greek and make speeches. Not satisfied with this, they decided to investigate his shapely calves; so they pulled off his stockings, and found that...
...their doings since their recent defeat. Yesterday morning a communication appeared in our columns which bewailed the reckless expenditures by the base-ball management of the funds subscribed by the freshman class for the support of its team. It seems rather small for any one to begrudge a suit, even though it does cost thirty-four dollars, to the nine, and its six substitutes, that have borne their defeat with such a manly spirit and are working so hard to retrieve their past misfortune. When we look to see the men despondent and careless they are cheerful and are working...
...suit against Harvard College by F. R. Brooks, '89, who was so badly burned in the laboratory last year will be begun in a few days...
...SALE. - Itchen cutter "Daisy" by Fay, Southampton; 32 ft. over all; 8 1-2 ft. beam; lead keel 5 1-4 tons; suit 14 sails, mostly linen, by Lapthorne; complete outfit. Apply to J. N. Palmer, 86 Thayer...