Word: olde
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...playing an old refrain...
...professor of Physics and Astronomy in the Kansas University is only twenty-one years old. How old are the students...
...old printing-office on Holyoke Street, Cambridge, formerly occupied by the University Press, and now by John Wilson & Son, is to be torn down by order of the College authorities. The Wilsons will take possession of the University Press building at once, adding their own material to that recently purchased of the creditors of Welch, Bigelow...
...pedler nuisance is forcibly presented to our minds by the Athenaeum: "We have no 'Trigs' or second-hand books of any kind to sell; no old clothes, hats, caps, toothpicks, or slippers. We will not buy oranges, apples, or peanuts, if you give them away. Don't dare to stop at our door unless you are a member of the Faculty or town constable...
...Freshmen think that the college papers are the originators of opinions. Poor deluded Freshmen! Public opinion, far from being the offspring of the papers, is their master; and, like Sindbad's "Old Man of the Sea," is riding them to death. If they could shake it off, they might stand up straight and grow strong. As it is, they scold vigorously at the instructors and the "marking-system," but turn their backs when some wrong appears at which the majority wink...