Word: thing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Senior (who elected History for a "soft thing"). The followers of - of - Victor Hugo, I believe...
Rather disconcerted at the untimely ending of my period, a thing I rather pride myself on in conversation, I suggested that law-pills would be improved if they were previously to receive a little Continental gilding...
...expense of laborious grinding. One of the famous German Etymologists will lecture hours on the subject under consideration, but if questioned on extraneous matter, he is altogether at a loss till he has his notes. There is no doubt that the training of memory is a good thing, but it should not be cultivated to the exclusion of other faculties. No more would I desire the student to be utterly dependent on his notes. Without a general knowledge of his subject his notes would be of little avail, his authorities of none at all. Let the student at an examination...
MESSRS. WOODS, Mann, Bruyere, Jacobus, Beach, Loughlin, Williamson, Paton, Van Deventer, form the Princeton Nine. The uniforms are of grayish blue, bound with orange. Princeton will send a University Crew and a Freshman Crew to the Regatta. The finest thing about the Nassau Lit. is the engraving on the cover...
...anything inherently nasty in the smoke of an aromatic herb, whatever may be the mental effects, we give a few selections as samples of the style of argument employed in the poorest grade of Western journalism: "If it was n't just for the name of the thing, I'd rather a man with a clean mouth would spit in my face than endure the foul breath of a smoker. . . . . A fine gentleman I would be, forsooth, to spit in your face; but if I've a good stomach and a tooth-brush, it's a deal cleaner than...