Word: toed
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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It would be considered a ridiculous proposition if any one should urge upon the students here to try to take possession of the caucuses in Cambridge, and swamp the regular politicians of the First Ward, and yet it is not merely possible, but quite likely, that such an attempt would...
That those who manage our State and national affairs are not altogether perfect, and that something is lacking in our political life, is evident, and so many a one, desiring to help in amending it, calls upon the class he considers the best, be it scholars, gentlemen, or women, to...
Students in college learn the value of time and of persevering struggle for a definite and single aim, and hence, whatever may be their occupations after graduation, they usually are wise enough to give them their whole, undivided attention. We shall find comparatively few engaged in politics, and who have...
Bidding a truce to dates, Christ Hospital was founded three hundred years ago by the boy-king Edward VI., in a large monastery whose inmates had been driven out in the hostile reign of bluff King Hal. Starting with 350 scholars, it has now 1200; but it is not a...
Gray Friars, however, is very small in comparison with Christ's, there being but fifty scholars on the foundation, yet the proportion of celebrated men is very large, - Addison, "loose Dick Steele," Thurlwall, Grote, Sir John Leech, and Thackeray standing high in the list of graduates. The last-named, Thackeray...