Word: weeds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Vultures and wolves have been known to turn away from the dead body of a tobacco-user." This shows clearly that any person who uses tobacco does wrong, because he thereby deprives "vultures and wolves" of that which is, no doubt, their due. But as an argument against the weed its force will not be felt by any one who does not intend himself especially for wolf-meat...
...been employed. We do not appreciate the wisdom of making the Freshman the hardest year. The standing of a student at the end of the Freshman year is no criterion of what he can or will do in subsequent years, and if the course complained of is intended to weed out the poorest scholars of the class, it is a mistaken policy...
...effect of moonlight on the complexion, I have been making the necessary preparations for my long, and, it is to be hoped, profitable voyage. Fifteen pounds of "Lone Jack" was my first investment. I have laid in this large supply, as it will be difficult to procure the correct weed along the route. As Athens is on the programme, I have taken Volume VIII. of Grote to refresh my memory of Socrates and the Prytaneum. The library of the "Ontario" seemed to lack books for light reading, so I invested in a choice assortment of new French novels, with...
...shore the sea-weed soft it heaves...
...realized my misfortune at first; it was not till I came to College that I was fully aware of the magnitude of the evil. And it is to pray for a last chance of reclamation for myself and my companions in distress, that I write this article. When the weed of indiscriminate charity becomes so vigorous as to crowd a decent fellow-sprig out of existence, the time were come, it would seem, for a little interference. So much humbug has crept into the charity of to-day, that "the greatest of these three" is at war with the chief...