Word: sage
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SCRIPTURAL Senior comes down repeating half mournfully, half reproachfully: 'O Sage. O Sage, thou that crusheth the Junior and aweth the Fresh, how oft would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not.' A conscience some what seared suggests, 'Was, nimmer?' And the laboring spirit answers, 'Not since the matron came.' - Cornell...
...Society, and its rival organization the "Hair-pins." (Groans.) Passing on to the principal events in their lives as Seniors, she playfully mentioned that Miss -- tried to secure the election to Beta Kappa Phi, over Miss X., by wearing the most graceful Parisian costumes, and at this point her sage remarks on the frivolity of dress were both apt and original. In conclusion, she looked forward expectantly to the day when the fair sex should exclude men from every post of honor and responsibility. "Kai yap" (she went on), "are not wives gifted with an extraordinary faculty of extracting secrets...
...once into a stewpan, sprinkle in a liberal allowance of pepper, and let them simmer for just one hour by the watch. If the award now appears sufficiently cooked, garnish it with greens and serve up with plenty of sauce. Smother the groans of the audience with onions and sage, and replace the brains of the judges. Soak their heads for half an hour in a bucket of cold water, and consign them to a hot place for future...
Then quoth the stripling to the sage...
...Then said the sage, a little tired...