Word: buying
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...FRESHMAN, on his way to College, met a Junior with a Large and Handsome Dog. The Lad spoke to the Animal, and said, "Come with me, and I will buy me a new Coat and we will be happy together. "Not so," replied the Sagacious Brute. "I am an upper-class Animal, and if I accompanied You, my air would be so Awkward from shame at the company I was in, that you would be at once Recognized for the Ass that you are. Therefore, I pray you, put away Ambition." Thus saying, he left the Aspiring Innocent a Sadder...
...great taste for the literature of the past, and longed to fit for college. Neither my father nor Father Reilly wished me to go to the Public Schools, on account of the low standard of social position. I studied by myself. By blacking boots, I earned enough to buy Bohn's translation of the Iliad, and was entranced with the beauty of that noble poem. I entered in 1876, and since then I have done nothing but study. I have left college only once, and that was on St. Patrick's Day, when my father's society gave a free...
Then came a fat man, smelling of tobacco. He had several volumes of Bohn's works under his arm. This one was a Bummer, and spoke as follows: "Old man, I admire your pluck. If you'll only pitch into the Faculty heavy, we'll all buy your paper. You see, the Advocate and Crimson haven't got backbone enough. You just publish these complaints about janitors and short vacations, and these suggestions about a lower grade of degrees and abolishing prayers, and I tell you what, the fellows will back...
...represent undergraduate opinion. If the Echo continues to be straight-forward and sensible, and if it will avoid personalities and the vulgarity of the Yale Daily News, it will undoubtedly recommend itself to the best class of our students: all will want to read it; but whether all will buy it or not, time alone can determine. Harvard is notoriously inferior to Yale in the support of such interests, and our college pride needs some stronger stimulus than statements about what Yale has accomplished. We sincerely hope that the Echo will receive the patronage that it deserves, and we extend...
...buy a little lumber-yard...