Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sign was put up by my orders, and was regarded as a matter of necessity and expediency. It was of course a bold thing to do in the face of a frowning press, but they obliged us to do it to save ourselves...
...long must we wait before undergraduate ushers will learn that it is decidedly not the correct thing, on Commencement Day at least, to leap over the railing in Sanders Theatre between parquet circle and parquet while in the presence of a respectable audience...
...class of '52, to which he belonged," he said, "had come up to celebrate its quarter-century, and one thing had come to their knowledge they were proud of, and that was, that however little else they had done, they had produced one grandfather. In this department of usefulness they would report progress, and ask leave to sit again. Two or three points in the affairs of the College had attracted his attention. He had observed with increased solicitude the difficulty which presented itself to their juniors and sons for finding admission to the University, and especially the difficulty...
...course we laughed, but the pesky thing had burnt right into my foot, and I was as lame as a Bull of Bashan. And then I had no string to that boot, too; so, you see, we had to walk home slowly, and there was no time for flowers if we wanted to get home before dark. So there was no grubbing that...
...most remarkable thing about the Dartmouth is the small amount of space it sees fit to devote to matters in its own College. The next remarkable thing is the large amount of space it devotes to matters which have to do with no College at all. The last number contains a synopsis of the libretto of "Tannhuser," which at Hanover is spelt with only one n; an account of a palace-car journey from Boston to St. Paul's, Minnesota, in which we learn that Buffalo is "a place of great commercial interest and a great entrepot for the grain...