Word: ponders
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Dates: during 1881-1881
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...Scotch goods were dismissed from mind, there still remained the question of the cut, which I had promised to settle at some future time. A man's clothes at Harvard are somewhat like the ablative in Latin: they express manner, means, quality-and price. Hence I could not but ponder with much anxiety on the question, how long the coattails should be, if indeed it were not better to stick to the old-fashioned sack, and how large a pair of shoes the trousers should be made to admit...