Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...happened that in the two seats directly in front of ours there were two as blooming maidens as ever appealed to the aesthetic nature of an appreciative undergraduate. In a word, they were girls not to be sneezed at; but rather to be smiled at, if occasion allowed...
...three centuries behind the time on earth. This occasioned a laughable error at Minus Infinity a few centuries ago. We had just found out that the world was coming to an end in the 25th century; we were then hearing from the 18th century on earth; we therefore sent word to Minus Infinity that in seven hundred years would happen the destruction of the world. But they, forgetting to transpose our system of time to theirs, announced that the end of the world would happen near the end of the 19th century. An old woman who happened to be there...
...allowed to say a word as to who the persons are to whom the credit is due of having made the Junior Class Supper a success? There was a committee of ten appointed originally, but as this number was found too large, a special committee of three was selected from them to attend to the actual arrangements of the dinner. To these three gentlemen, Messrs. Buell, Blodgett, and Chase, the thanks of the Class, which have been so variously bestowed...
...Harvard man does not conform to any fixed pattern in thought, word, or action. He has none of the bubbling effervescence springing from the rock of faith in self and college that characterizes those who have dwelt within the sacred precincts of Novel Harbor. Nor has he any of that immature maturity, that attempted sophistication, which marks the sons of freedom's namesake. He has none of that tendency to regard the earth as one huge football, which is the mote that dims the eyes of the Jersey princes. But it avails little to say what...
...Corporation to object if they wished, for the measure was not to go into effect until nearly two weeks after it was voted upon. The Board of Directors put up on their official bulletin board a notice of the new plan. On the day following, the Bursar, without a word of explanation, and in defiance of all rules of courtesy, had the notice torn down. Now, how is it possible to believe that the Bursar was endowed with jurisdiction over the Directors such as to make his act justifiable? He lets rooms to the students. Would he be able...