Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...latest theory is that Professor Ko wrote that Chinese letter...
...conclusion that all the extracts were equally well adapted for that praiseworthy purpose. Despairing of understanding anything in their paper, I resolved that the examiners should understand nothing in my book. So, being acquainted with Choctaw (a language which closely resembles, yet is totally different from Greek), I wrote in this tongue stories of Indian mythology which I thought might be parallel to the Greek myths. When the examination was over, I walked out feeling that, whatever the examiners might say, they could not accuse me of being commonplace. Well, tempus fugit (notice my exact knowledge of Latin quantity...
MAUD. Here's one I wrote myself...
...desire to encounter that gentleman prematurely, and stayed away. Billiard-rooms and Carl's were anathema maranatha, and he refused to go to athletic meetings, because he had heard that the horrid sin of betting was prevalent at them. He frequently lectured his classmates on their immorality, and even wrote of their wickedness to the Herald. But, instead of being looked up to as "a superior young man," he was shunned by his fellows, and even the Cambridge ladies could not stand him. They said he was a horrid, conceited little snob...
...Senior year he finished his efforts for the welfare of his class. He wrote a note to a gentleman interested in such matters to say that the examination papers were sold. He usurped the office of a certain great man, and sent a letter to the mother of an acquaintance advising her to remove him from college. But the lady did not answer, and his classmates sent him to Coventry; and he was n't class orator, and he did n't marry the marshal's sister...