Word: whose
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...alcohol in spirits, at the same time discovering and exposing all the ingenious devices by which examination-papers have been made easy. Every one will be truly gauged according to his actual merit by this unerring machine, which will play havoc with those cunning seekers after college-rank whose sole claim to distinction is the idea entertained by their instructors that they are trying hard. Amiable rank-smiths, there is to be no more of this sort of scholastic reputation-building...
COLLEGIAN.[Institutions differ, but we are of the opinion that none of them claim jurisdiction over students in vacation outside the college precincts. There are cases, we presume, where the government of an institution might feel authorized to exceed its legitimate authority in the control of students whose parents or guardians were at a distance.]" - Transcript...
...strange that we should have but such a scant picture of his college life, which could hardly fail to be a remarkable one. We give the few faint glimpses that are afforded us by the excellent biography of the Rev. Dr. Little-kin, whose research has been both conscientious and scholarly...
...Friday evening programme consisted of the "Registered Letter," a little comedy whose refined tone argued a French origin, and of a burlesque on the story of Romulus and Remus...
...Whose theme, be sure, was not the weather...