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"Hush! don't talk so loud," interposed Adler. "You'll have the profs down upon us." "I'll go you another five shillings on one throw," said Sanborn, chagrined at his loss. "Put down your money." The reckless young gambler put two half crowns, or five shillings, upon the bed, and Wilton shook again. "A nick!" said he, seizing the two half crowns. "Try it again," demanded Sanborn.
"No doubt both methods help in the development of speed, but as between the two, my money goes on the paddle. "But now," he said, as he made a motion to rise, "I'll have to go. I've had a bully good time with you fellows, but I'm keeping you from your studies and then, too, there are one or two of the old Profs I want to see before I turn in.
The names of the two men whom the Egypt Exploration Fund commissioned to excavate Dêr el-Bahari and Abydos, and for whose work it exclusively supplied the funds, Profs. Naville and Petrie, will live chiefly in connection with their work at Dêr el-Bahari and Abydos.
I informed him that all the profs at Siwash went armed, and that the course of study consisted of mining, draw poker, shooting from the hip, broncho-busting, sheep-shearing, History of Art, bread-making and Evidences of Christianity." "Did he admit by that time that you were a good, free-handed liar?" I asked.
These had only to pay for their clothing and books, while all others had to pay their entire expenses, including tuition. Early in November, Profs. Smith, Yallas, St. Ange, and I, met a committee of the Board of Supervisors, composed of T. C. Manning, G. Mason Graham, and W. W. Whittington, at General Graham's house, and resolved to open the institution to pupils on the 1st day of January, 1860.
Vaguely I felt that here was crust and only crust, and that for some reason or other it was meant that this should be so, because in the fresh bubbling springs and the deep blazing fires whose presence I could feel below there was something irritating to profs and disturbing to those who paid them.
Babbitt had growled to him, "Makes me tired the way these doctors and profs and preachers put on lugs about being 'professional men. A good realtor has to have more knowledge and finesse than any of 'em." "Right you are! I say: Why don't you put that into a paper, and give it at the S. A. R. E. B.?" suggested Rountree.
As for himself, he was going to leave college and go to herding hens somewhere over two thousand miles from the Faculty. So we left it to Rearick and went home to sleep and dream murderous dreams about meeting profs in lonesome places. The first thing I saw next morning when I went out of the house was a handbill on a telegraph pole. It was printed in red ink.
"His smaller work on the first development of Christianity in the Apostolic Age is marked by the same spirited characteristics, while his 'Life of Jesus' is an able defense of the historical verity of the sacred narrative against the ingenious and subtle suggestions of Strauss. "The writings and theological position of NEANDER have been fully brought before the American public by Profs.
"We don't want the profs. coming in on us to spoil the fun." "Nor to have to lick Percival and a lot of other fools that have taken up with the new chap," observed Holt. "H'm! you'd lick Dick Percival, I don't think!" sneered Merritt, who never lost a chance to jeer any one, his own associates included. "I'd like to see you do it." "Shut up!" snarled Herring.
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