Word: unlock
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...basis, or rather the beginning, of such an education, except for those who are so constituted mentally that they can never do anything with languages. But Latin and Greek should be used, not as fields for grammatical gymnastics, but as the keys to the treasures which they unlock...
...notify me of needed repairs. This is exemplified by the fact that the boat club holds the only keys to the main locks of the buildings, and I was last summer unable to let my workmen in, or get in to see to the work without having the janitor unlock the doors. He is employed by the club and not by the college...
...entrance was made Tuesday evening into No. 31 Weld, on the ground floor in the north entry, occupied by Mr. Sherman Hoar, '82. A pane of glass was broken out, and through this aperture it was made possible to unlock the sash and raise the window and enter. A neighbor says he heard a slight crash of glass about 11.30 P. M., when, it is supposed, the intruder entered. But, curiously and fortunately enough, Mr. Hoar has as yet been unable to discover that any property was stolen, though some disarrangement of things was noticed...
...days passed and he did not come. He had utterly vanished from the face of the earth. You may imagine that this made no little sensation, not only in the college, but in the entire vicinity. I can honestly affirm that I did my best to unlock the door of this secret mystery; but my wildest conjectures resulted in no inkling of the truth. Indeed, I have heard it whispered that there were those who remotely connected ME with his disappearance; but the rumor did not reach my ears to disturb me then. Besides, I do not doubt...