Word: comes
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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SOME time ago, I was talking with a young lady of Boston who is much devoted to art. She was complaining of the great difficulty in getting models, that is, intelligent faces to copy. Suddenly she asked me, jokingly, "Why won't you come in and sit for us, Mr. Milburn ? We will pay you twenty-five cents an hour, and your car-fare, and you will have the pleasure of being looked at, admiringly, by a dozen girls." This struck me as quite the idea; so I agreed to go in and sit for their class three afternoons...
...Come, ever fleeting...
...those cast on the honesty of professionals, while it offers no advantage to offset the harm it is sure to do. Whatever college resorts to the expedient of playing professionals on their team, should not expect to enter for an amateur championship. It is not too late to come to an understanding in the particular case referred to, and it is none too early for Harvard to set the example of adhering strictly to amateurs in the composition of college organizations...
...What did you have to-day? I got through immensely. Seventy per cent any way. History - is bully, and - is about the best man in college. I wish that he had another course, and I'd take it next year. "Hello, Freshie!" to our dropped member, who had just come in. "If you want to get back into your class, just take History...
...answer to this was lost in the cry from No. 1 l. to No. 5 r: "Good enough! That's what I put. I had n't the remotest idea what it ought to be. Did n't Charles the Fat come after Bayard...