Word: irelander
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...John, the fruit vender, has been a familiar object about college for one cannot tell how many years back; but there must have been a time when John was a brawny and ruddy emigrant from the old sod arriving at Castle Garden, full of the confidence of youth and Ireland. To every class now in college, at least, the mumbling, high-pitched tones of a voice crying, "Do you want any oranges, sorr?" have been long familiar. John is a philosopher in his way; as he himself says, he "has a good remembry," and while plodding his steady rounds with...
...Saint Patrick was a good mon and an eddicated mon, but he didn't drive the snakes out of Ireland - for there never were any snakes in Ireland...
...Wance," when John was a boy in Ireland, some eddicated folks came to the country and told them all about the steam-cars, and drew a "presen'tion" of them. But he didn't ever believe them until he went to "Clarney," and saw with his own eyes the wonders related. So people ought to believe a great many things they never see. "Why, if I should go to Oirland, and tell them all about class-day here, sorr, they would niver believe...
...issued the first of this week. Its "make-up" is the same as usual. The total number of students is 1,534, of which 513 are members of the literary department. The members of the faculties number eighty-seven. The Hawaiian Islands send us three students; Nicaraugua, Cuba, England, Ireland, Roumania, Egypt and Burmah, one each...
...matriculation list of the new Royal University of Ireland contains the names of nineteen girl students...