Word: friend
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...presence of the letter-box in front of University is not due to the influence of the College Press on the post-office officials, the Advocate to the contrary notwithstanding. A member of '79 suggested to a friend who is connected with the Boston Post-Office the want that the students felt of a letter-box in the Yard. The one now in use is the result...
...sentence was never finished. The youth and beauty made manifest their present animation, whatever may be their condition a hundred years hence. My gloomy friend realized the situation, removed his hat, and wept no more...
...classmate troubled himself more about its birth and troubled us less about his "first-rate 2d tenor." As the matter now stands, however, the Glee Club is out of the question; for the members of such a thing would be the laughing-stock of the College after my brilliant friend's effusion...
...examinations for second-year honors; so that the Association offers only one contest which we are not better provided with at home, namely, the contest in oratory. Even this bids fair to lose its place on the programme, and the man who urges its abolishment is the stanchest friend of the Association, Dr. McCosh. In its place he would have a discussion of "live topics," - a change so startling as to cause Hamilton, that well-spring of eloquence, to withdraw at once from the Association. Next year literary meetings of the Association will be held before the oratorical contests...
...afterward, as she was making a quick turn, one of her skates flew off and came gliding over the ice to my feet. She did not fall, but stood still till I brought her skate and asked her could I put it on. Half assenting, she turned to her friend, who looked so haughty and reserved that the girl, with a checked look again coming over her face, only said, with thanks, that she would not trouble me. So I went away, and sat down on the edge of the platform...