Word: terness
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...each week absences were announced in Latin after the service. "Ter abfuisti," a student would be informed. To which he would answer, "Semel aegrotavi," "Bis invalui," or "Detentus ab amic s" (friends from home...
Alarm No. 61 called out a large number of students last evening to a fire in a shop on Boylston St. An old woman present expressed matters pretty accurately when she said: "The poor sthudents! Shure 'nd there wus n't enough fur 'em ter warrum their hands...
...gits rale tasty sometimes, sor, in the arranging o' the gintlemin's rooms. There's a hilthy rivalry amongst us too, sor. We thinks ourselves mighty lucky if we kin git inter Holworthy. Last month, sor, I was meself promoted from College House ter Hollis. This rivalry, sor, is a hilthy thing, We all takes a great deal 'o pains in what we does. Why, sor, I makes some 'o my rooms looks jest so sweet'nd pretty loike that yer wouldn't know' em, sor. I have a way o' leavin' the dust on things, sor, a purpose...
...whin I found in one 'o the beds sich a nice soft blanket, sor, that I knowed it wud make him well, sor; so I jest borrowed it fer a day or two, sor, and it cured him completely. I've always felt so grateful loike ter that blanket that I've niver been able ter part with it at all at all, sor. Mebbe it was yourn, sor. With tears in me eyes, I wants ter thank...
...very kind that you is, sor. I've no more ter say, sor, exceptin" that sometimes the gintlemin is rale ganerous now. Onct, sor, I found a table drawer open just wide enough fer the loike o' me ter see in, and in there, sor, was a five dollar bill, sor. I knowed that it wus put there fer me ter see, sor, and so I tuk it, sor, jest as any xise woman'd have did. It kept me and me five chillers a hull week, sor. The nixt day afther that, sor, I got promotion. That...