Word: growing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...World's reports of college doings grow better and better as the weeks go by. The one who has charge of that department seems to understand what he is talking about; the arrangement is always good, and the facts are never twisted. The same may be said, negatively, of the Transcript's reports...
...time for dinner, which, dressed by a French chef, and washed down with the choicest wines, is eaten at the rooms of some hospitable friend. After an evening spent in playing billiards or in other diversions, the undergraduate goes to bed when the small hours are beginning to grow large...
...same time you can expect to know a reasonable number of ladies, and if you take advantage of the introductions which I took the trouble to procure for you, you can expect to know ladies whose acquaintance will be not only agreeable, but also useful to you, as you grow to be an older and a greater man. The refining influence of female society is a subject that has been so thoroughly exhausted of late years that I will not bore you by entering upon it. I shall only advise you to avoid what I call gentlemen ladies, - the converse...
...rather liked the fellow at first. I thought he was a fresh and ingenuous youth, for whose benefit I could pour forth my reserved stores of wisdom. But after I had told him about fifty times how old I was, how large my allowance was, etc., it began to grow monotonous. I said, "Look here, old fellow! I'll just write down all those things, such as how old I am, how much money my father has, how many sisters I have, how old they are, etc., and then you can nail it up on your door so that...
...words more, and I shall ask your pardon if I hurry on in a very unconnected way. To come back to college drunkenness, you will find as you grow more familiar with college life that a great many men talk about getting drunk who seldom drink too much. You will find, too, that many of the fellows who in the beginning of the course have occasionally been overcome by punch, soon give it up. And you may generalize from this to other sorts of dissipation, which I have neither the space nor the inclination to specify...