Word: ve
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...want to force anybody to hear tedious lectures; I've cut many a lecture myself, and know well enough that hard reading and industry in his own room are in the end more important, perhaps, to a student than hearing university courses. But I cannot persuade myself that the industry is to be found in the case of those who attend no lectures the first two or four semesters, and calculate from the very be ginning on the ability of a paid "coach" to cram them up for the examination. The number of these men, however, is very large - among...
This burlesque was one of the most successful things of the kind given in Vassar for a long time. The parodies on the principal songs of the Mikado were all of them clever, that on Ko Ko's song, "I've got him on the list," especially...
...ve got a little list, I've got a little list...
Overheard in horse-car: First freshman: "Why, next year if we wanted we could put eight men in the 'varsity eleven - we've got all the material we want." Second do. "Well the way to do it is to make every man in the class who weights 150 pounds come out on the campus and practice two hours every day. Then we'd have a daisy eleven...
...certain member of the '89 chess club was heard to exclaim the other day when he had lost his queen in play: "I've got my king yet, anyway...