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...SCENE, German Class. PROFESSOR (to a '78 Miss). What does enthaupten mean? '78 Miss. It means to behead a person. PROFESSOR. Then what does behaupten mean? '78 Miss. I should think that meant to put a head on him. - Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

...among the crew. For instance, I noticed a young man of prepossessing appearance who spoke English a little, and who I took to be a native of Southern Europe, but I soon found that he understood neither Italian, French, nor Spanish. "Perhaps," said I to myself," he is a German." I tried him on my limited stock of German, and found he did not know a word of it. That finished me, and I gave him up as a hopeless case. Some time afterwards it occurred to me to smoke a cigar. I offered him one also. He said that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY FELLOW-PASSENGERS. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

...German...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS, JUNE, 1875. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

...German...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS, JUNE, 1875. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

...FRESHMAN GERMAN . . . . . Mass. Halls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS, JUNE, 1875. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »