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Word: wont (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Lowell was then introduced. He deplored the fact that he would be unable to meet Freshmen personally as he had been wont to do in former years. He likened the life of a Freshman to that of a sea captain about to leave the harbor for a foreign port. Like the captain who guides his ship by the compass, so the new student must guide his acts by his conscience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNUAL FACULTY RECEPTION | 10/5/1909 | See Source »

...some urgent inducement. There is everything to be gained by the Dean's plan, and nothing to be lost which any generous man would not lose eagerly. The suggestion that the dignity of the College will suffer is nonsense. That the Boston Herald should believe that the Med. Fac. wont keep its word is natural enough; but it will keep its word absolutely and unquestionably, and if there are undergraduates who do not know that it will, that is only because they don't know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BROOKS HOUSE CASE | 6/5/1905 | See Source »

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