Word: registrar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...afterwards told me that his nerves had not been so badly shattered since the time in his Freshman year when he received his first invitation from "For the Registrar...
This name gives a kind of glamour to the place which is irresistible to the Freshman. He looks upon Mr. Sever with no less awe and affection than on the Registrar himself. He considers it a privilege to buy books at a store sanctioned by the Faculty of his dear College, and pays for his Chauvenet and Horace with no thought or wish that there might be better bargains. If not before the end of his first year, then surely at the beginning of the second, he awakes to the knowledge that he is paying exorbitant prices. He looks around...