Word: boye
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...days after Webster had entered Exeter Academy he returned to his boarding place one evening in a very desponding mood and told his friends there that the city boys in the academy were constantly laughing at him because he was at the foot of his class, and had come from the back woods. Mr. Nicholas Emery who was than an assistant tutor in the academy-was made acquainted with young Webster's troubles, and as he had the management of the second or lower class, he treated his despondent pupil with marked kindness, and particularly urged him to think...
...halls of the main buildings is a little incident that happened there not long since. An upper classman while coming down stairs from a late recitation rushed up to a co-ed and with a swoop of his right arm encircled her neck, saying, "Hello Bill, old boy. How de do." When the time for red fire and slow music came he might have been seen hanging from the window sill of the 4th story hall blushing like a house afire.-[Michigan Chronicle...
...constrained to believe, though with regret, that the average student of the university has become so accustomed to the visits of the summons boy, as to pay but little heed to the invitations of which he is the bearer, other than to note the time at which his presuce at U. 8, is required and make such mendacious preparation as seems best to him for passing the inevitable ordeal. But, on receiving our annual summons yesterday we noticed that it differed from our last summons, received exactly one year ago, in that the seal of the college which...
There are a great many very good people says an esteemed contemporary, who think that to send a boy to college is to put him straight on "the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire...
Errands will be done in Cambridge at several hours of the day and in Boston each afternoon. The errand boy leaves for Boston at 1.30. Arrangements for all errands must be made in the office...