Word: five
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...comes flying into my room about twenty-five times a day on the average to ask me where my chum is, or to ask my chum where I am, or to ask us both where some one else is. When he has found out he goes contentedly back to his room, to sit down and think about it, I suppose. He don't want to see the man he asks for, not at all. It is only his consuming thirst for knowledge that makes...
...being, when he is freed from certain restraints to which he has always been accustomed, is to do some thing that he never did before. I remember that when I made my first independent railway journey - at the mature ago of twelve, - I indulged in the delights of a five-cent cigar, and felt horribly and horribly guilty for the next three days. A mater is a sort of colossal Mrs. Jellyby. She was so busy with the affairs of the outer world that she cannot find time to attend to the manners and morals of her children...
...which the principal is the admission of unmatriculated students. Upon payment of a moderate fee, persons twenty-one years of age can pursue such studies as they are qualified for without passing the usual entrance examination. A "Certificate of Proficiency" is given to such of them as obtain seventy-five per cent of the maximum mark in their courses. Some new prizes are offered to Freshmen and Sophomores for reading; and the requirements for entrance are increased a little, as usual. We are sorry to see that the number of men who have taken the various electives this year...
...open the door, some one ready to laugh with you at your author's wit, or to swear with you at the blindness of a textbook, - all this certainly tends to make life sweet. The other day, when that worthy African continued for the space of five minutes to call down blessings from Heaven upon my head in return for my five-cent subscription to the missionary cause, could I, had there been no one present to share my laugh, have considered it in the least amusing that my liberality had been followed by an effect so different from...
...this were a primary school, or the average age of the Seniors was five years instead of twenty-two, it would be unnecessary to say anything against the system. Perhaps one boy can learn the alphabet more quickly than another, but it is necessary to look after both to have them learn it at all. With Seniors the case is not precisely the same. Most of them are anxious and willing to learn, and the Faculty has unquestionably done much in the last few years to aid them. Some unnecessary restraints have been done away with and if others remain...