Word: know
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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Prof. (facetiously). - You do allow, then, an ass to know more Hebrew than...
...take those courses in which it is easiest to obtain a high rank, thus following no fixed plan of study, and leaving college without having enjoyed its highest advantages. How the Corporation and the Faculty have arrived at the conclusions that influence their action it Would be interesting to know. But perhaps the son of the pastor of a wealthy parish, or a student who pays $250 for his room, or one who spends the summer in Europe, is entitled to eleemosynary considerations...
...clubs with a yell that suggests the origin of the name applied to those useful articles, and begins to practise the last new step. I have heard that in some of the old buildings men frequently have to bring up coal and water from the lower regions, and I know perfectly well that most of the students are under the tyranny of Goodies, Pocos, and Janitors. It may not be generally known that a volume of miscellaneous essays which Leibnitz presented to the Library has been recently discovered in overhauling the department of fiction; in a short dissertation on "Evil...
These girls think that I know everything; they call me "Mr. Tournville" when I am present, but when I am absent, "Frank." I like to watch them as they sit making tatting, or crocheting " fascinators"; they can talk just as well as though their hands were idle. I dont know about that Faith; it seems to me that she is just a little too quick in her retorts. She advises me to be a humorist - could sarcasm go further? But she doesn't know as much as she ought to, for she asked me one day whether the college course...
...skin. The author - Richard Grant Black is his name - makes one or two unimportant mistakes with regard to the few original slang words in use here. Snab for girls, he tells us, is a Harvard word. He may be right, but I think very few undergraduates at present would know what it meant, and it is not to be found in Hall's "College Words and Customs," published here in 1856. Now, as Mr. Black himself says, "The college vocabulary is very slowly enlarged, . . . but once let a phrase become firmly established, and it is immortal." Such a convenient general...