Word: tis
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...slightest hint of dissatisfaction innumerable mass meetings and investigating committees, and I don't know what all, used to arise to right the wrongs at which we so sternly pointed the finger of scorn. But now things seem to be altogether changed. These Harvard man are quite too incomprehensible. "Tis another exhibition of Harvard "indifference," I am sure. Our most scathing philippics seem to have no effect...
...your indulgence, but please call me Oscar, 'tis not so earthy, but far more ecstatic...
...grasp your conception, but then 'tis said that their aestheticism is purely pastoral...
...tis but the story of my own life; as you see I am strangely beautiful, and 'tis pity for womankind alone that tempts me to wear this disfiguring garb...
...think." She talked on in school girl dialect for some time, until the silence and horrified looks of the ladies suggested to the unlucky freshman that possibly these might be teachers. Such proved to be the case, and after much apology she retreated, greatly fearing for the consequences. 'Tis hardly necessary to say that she has been to chapel ever since...