Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...examinations claim to afford a very rich fund of ludicrous incidents. One of the frequent causes of humor at examinations is of course the ignorance of candidates. A person was once asked the question at an Oxford examination, "Who was Esau?" "Esop," said he, "was a man who wrote fables, and who sold the copyright to a publisher for a bottle of potash!" Another student was asked to give some account of Wolsey. His reply was unique. "Wolsey was a famous general who fought in the Crimean War, and who, after being decapitated several times, said to Cromwell...
...more general interest. Such circumstances seem to exist in the case which has just occurred, and justice to a popular and worthy man, as well as to truth, demands that the facts should be known. Mr. Sartelle, being in my room, casually read my theme, and some time afterwards wrote his, on the same subject. By a freak of memory there appeared striking resemblances between the two themes, which led the instructor to make an investigation. Mr. S. told a straightforward, manly, truthful story about the matter to the instructor, the dean and the president : that he did not write...
...that men of wide reputation in letters may be of really better material than men who may be more proficient in studies, told of a letter which was written by a friend of James Russell Lowell to an acquaintance in Europe in the year of Lowell's graduation. He wrote that James Lowell had fallen in his studies and the facuty were rather down on him, but the boys liked him and had chosen him class poet, and that Lowell's father had said, "Oh, dear, James promised me that he would give up writing poetry and go to work...
...Thus are we slandered," says the Roxbury Advocate : " 'There are two boating associations here,' wrote a Japanese student home, 'called Yale and Harvard. When it rains, the members read books.' No well-informed person needs to be reminded that students have more profitable methods of utilizing rainy days than in devoting them to study...
...started in New York, the first of the year, which will be called Life, and is to be run and contributed to by the bright set of young Harvard men who have distinguished themselves of late in the lightest literature, among them E. S. Martin, who wrote "Sly Ballades in Harvard China;" Robert Grant, author of the "Frivolous Girl;" Attwood, who wrote "Manners and Customs of ye Harvard Student," and Wheelwright, author of "Rollo's Journey to Cambridge." Mr. Mitchell, who wrote the "Summer School of Philosophy at Mount Desert," is to be one of the leading editors...