Word: boringly
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...Street a year or two ago a black painted board with gilt letters indicated the position of the Harvard Restaurant, and in numerous cigar-stores in the neighboring metropolis conspicuous placards offer to the smoking public the Harvard Cigarette. One of these institutions, the restaurant, deserved the name it bore, but the others have as little claim to the title as those uninteresting concerts that have been given in Boston in past winters under the name of the Harvard Symphony...
...horrid bore...
...book he examines. The names are written on a slip of paper, with the number of mistakes each has made. Then the man with fewest mistakes, say six, is given the highest mark, say 98%. This is almost exactly the relation the best man's mistakes and per cent bore at the mid year. The man with seven mistakes gets 97%, and the man with twelve gets 92%. Thus the first man loses only 1% for each three mistakes, while the others lose 1% for each mistake over six. This statement is nearly if not exactly correct...
Bruised with the flails those godly zealots bore...
...have already, among our exchanges, the Trinity Tablet, the Boston Beacon, the Lasell Leaves, and Monthly Musings; why do we not all make use of "apt alliteration's artful aid"? We might have "Yale Yelps," "Vassar Voices," "Cornell Criticisms" (not a bad name for the Era), "The Bowdoin Bore," and "The Princeton Puritan," "Dartmouth Diggings," "Amherst Attempts...