Word: sawed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...evening, as I was loitering about the entrance to the ball-room of one of the hotels at Saratoga, wishing that the thermometer would try the effect of a cold bath, I saw R., a college friend of mine and in the Senior class. He is a nice fellow, and good-looking; but, owing to the absence of those airy nothings usually indulged in by men of his age, his appearance is somewhat youthful...
Meanwhile, R.'s face was a study. At last a light broke upon him, he saw that she had mistaken his class, and resolved to carry on the joke, so replied with due solemnity...
...only a Freshman, and you will please excuse my asking you absurd questions, but there are some things that I want to know. I know a Senior, and he comes from the same place that I do. I saw a good deal of him last summer, and he put me up to some dodges that will make me have a cold thing of the first ten - O, I forgot; I was n't to say anything about it. Among other things, he told me that Seniors had "voluntary recitations." I guess he meant that they did n't have...
...Bless me! how green you are!" exclaimed Humbug. "Why, my dear fellow, you'd kill yourself, - it is n't the thing at all, you know. You have much to learn. I saw you talking today to a man with long hair. That was a mistake. You must know that this college is not your native town; it is a world by itself, and does not recognize the world around it. Here you must do as the rest do; here 'come-outers' are not tolerated; here a man must hide his heart, and make friends who will be useful...
...Saw Theban walls in state before him rise...