Word: whose
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Whose answers only came - with sleep...
...shrank back in terror, saying, "Who is this miserable man?" And the Freshman replied, "He is officially known as the Borsair, a term whose derivation the Philological Society have not yet determined. Some twenty years ago he headed an insurrection of Janitors, or Janissaries, - there is an historical doubt. They were temporarily successful; but they enacted such an oppressive system of legislation that a counter-revolution was started, and on its success the Janissaries were banished and the Borsair imprisoned for life...
...declining years of those who have spent their youth in her service, not only ought to attract earnest scholars towards the College, but also will doubtless prove extremely beneficial, when necessary, by enabling the Corporation to substitute young and vigorous men, full of modern ideas, for those whose thoughts and life are only in the past, and who have outgrown their usefulness...
...MILLET, the distinguished artist of New York, whose lectures on Greek and Roman costume have been so well received in Boston, will deliver a lecture on Roman costume before the Philological Society, on Tuesday next, January 18, at 7.30 P.M., in Sever 11. All are invited to be present...
Death did indeed claim two victims from the spectators of last summer's race; and people whose information about the calamity was gained at second hand, and was entirely erroneous, did not scruple to offer public censure of the managers for their assumed remissness, - one writer even venturing to brand them as "criminals." This sort of talk, no matter how absurdly unjust, is not pleasant to those against whom it is uttered, for no one likes to be told that he ought to be a jail-bird, even when his self-appointed judge is a person ill-informed and powerless...