Word: specimen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...outside door: it was a Grays door. I had a spite against that door, and I plunged into it. As I did so, there was a dull thud on the steps below, and a paper fluttered into my hands. I cannot be responsible for its contents. It is a specimen of a too familiar type...
...much so as to be a little heavy as well. It prints some excellent Commencement essays, and criticises the performances of Commencement and Class Day. Professor Mitchell seems to be a great favorite at Vassar. Stanzas have been written in her honor, of which the following is a specimen...
...proclivities. "That's the last year's Harvard nine. When Ernst left, we were unable to fill his place from the College, so we hired Tommy Bond to come in as special student. Since that, our whole nine has become professional. "That fellow," pointing to a particularly villanous-looking specimen of the plug ugly, "is Mike Rooney the shortstop." I waited to hear no more, but turned and left the building. What I saw in the Yard and in Sever Hall I will reserve for another letter...
THIS is a specimen of what the New York Graphic can do: "Harvard, instead of rowing across the high seas, will challenge either Columbia or Cornell, - the high C's of American Colleges...
...glad of it; you have taken quite a load off my mind, for I feared that you were in danger of dismissal. Well, Fred, I won't detain you longer, your sisters are dying to know all about college; but before you go, here's a specimen of specie payments from me as a Detur for your good work in Latin and Greek...