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Word: learned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...press, we learn Muzzes Khin is about to publish a map of the course. As the artist will have some difficulty in following it, the usual crimson cover will have to be omitted on the score of expense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOMETHING TO ADORE; OR, THE HARE AND HOUNDS CHASE. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...books under their arms and a very dazed and unhappy expression of countenance. They tell me they are called sub-Freshmen, - things just like Freshmen, only younger and smaller, and trying very hard to be really Freshmen, just like a tadpole tries to be a frog. They have to learn all sorts of things, - Ethics and Dentistry and Agriculchar, and another kind of culchar that they learn in the pretty building with the bell. Among other things, they have to learn Geography. Now I never could remember all those colors on the map, - could you? Green for Arizona and blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ANNEX ON SUB-FRESHMEN. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...learn that there was much surprise felt in New Haven at the tone of the last Advocate in its criticism of the football match. The Yale students, it seems, had no idea that we could complain of our treatment there or could protest against the prize-fighting element of which they make a specialty. Of course, when a person does an ungentlemanly action, and then declares that he did not know it was ungentlemanly, while we pity his ill-breeding, it is useless for us to argue the point with him. And however unsatisfactory this may appear, it seems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...learn that the Bursar is willing to discharge any janitor against whom sufficient complaint is made. In spite of the dissatisfaction which has been expressed, nothing has been said directly to the Bursar. He can take no action until some such complaint is made, and we have no doubt that, if men will only make known their troubles, they will obtain redress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

None, as far as he can learn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWELLS OF OCEAN. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

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