Word: mattingly
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...will see a confused mass of little human bodies squatted on the floor, rocking back and forth in well-kept measure, and repeating, parrot-like, the lesson of the day, each viewing with the others as a lung-tester; while in the background, squatted likewise on the pedagogical mat, is the instructor, whose chief business seems to be to keep up the rhythmical rocking and Babel of sound to its highest pitch. This he does by occasional adjuration, strengthened by applications of a long cane, which seems to be the chief badge of his profession, and by means of which...
...whole college stands ready to aid them with its encouragement and support, for they must share with them the victory or defeat which is to come. May '87 see their responsibility in time, and by improving on the good work done by '86 last year mat they succeed in again bringing the class championship to Harvard...
...much-abused mat...
...must have the shingle of a society (to which he probably does not belong) we are sure, we say, that if he makes application to the society they will have him a shingle printed, and even have it put in a nice gilt frame, with perhaps even a plush mat; but such childish and mean actions, if persisted in, will certainly result in serious discomfort to the guilty one if, as will surely happen sometime, he is ever detected...
...record in the running high jump does not count as a record, inasmuch as a mat was used...