Word: boys
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...smile. This was a Wit and a Critic. "Bold knight of the quill," said he, "take my advice: make your paper caustic and spicy; make fun of the literary men, the athletes, the bummers, the professors, and the college papers. Make fun of college life. Sneer at it, my boy, and your paper will go. Here is a light article on 'Lies in Literary Life, or a Factitious Faculty,' and a few good things for the Brevity Column...
...drownded boy - they...
TAKE one Latin School boy of a tender age, - one who has trodden on the edge of dangerous and unknown truths preferred, - two cupfuls of platitudes, four cupfuls of conceit; then add two pounds of feeling allusions to the effect that the great majority of your friends never use soap and water, and don't know enough to open their bedroom windows at night. Garnish the dish with "it seems to me," and sprinkle freely with the pronoun I. Serve with grandiloquence and bombast...
...Stop!" cried Miss Digge, bitterly. "Grinding hard, indeed! You are not even with the majority of your class on the list for Commencement parts. Our servant-girl has seen you several times on the late car. That is the way you spend your time, you dreadful boy...
...small boy in the Library is called a page, and should always be thus addressed. The chairs near the Library desk are reserved for upper classmen...