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Word: know (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Inquisitive Old Lady. - African Chapel! Well, where do the white boys go to church, I should like to know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...discussion, a gentleman known as the Resister arose, saying, "As a matter of fact, the money would be best employed in meeting the running expenses of the College, including stationery used in posting notices, damages to the barbers of Cambridge, and chemicals to remove paint stains. I don't know that I have any motion to make, for the case is tolerably evident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MEETING OF THE F - Y. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...most ambitious poetical effort we have met with this week, is an ode to the "Concord River," in the Tuftonian. The general effect is good, though marred somewhat by bad epithets and one or two unnecessary inversions. We would like to know what color a "blushing violet" is, and it seems as if the wrong deity had the adjective in the line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...week or two past, and, if all the reports are true, the students from Harvard College have formed no inconsiderable part of the audience. . . . If there is not discipline enough in the College to keep the students in their rooms, the parents of the young men ought to know that they are out, and govern themselves accordingly." We are used to the misrepresentations of Harvard in the Herald, but, really, a paper like the Watchman, which pretends to respectability, ought to know better. We wish that the Boston clergymen would "agitate" the editor until he knows enough to keep from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

Miss Flyrte. - Why, of course. I know you won't be cross. And mayn't I wait till one o'clock, so we can have a real, nice, long talk? Say yes, like a dear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

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