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  • So higher education eggheads, take a stroll, whistle a few bars of gaudeamus igitur, and we'll be back with you in a mo.

    Crib sheet 20.07.10 2010

  • Just at that instant the landlord, who was standing at the gate of the inn, exclaimed, "Here comes a fine troop of guests; if they stop here we may say gaudeamus."

    Don Quixote 2002

  • A _solatium_ is a Debating Society spree, held in December or January; a _gaudeamus_ is a festival of the same kind, only rather more ambitious, celebrated towards the close of the session.

    The Scarlet Gown being verses by a St. Andrews Man 1878

  • Though solatiums charm no longer, though a gaudeamus fails

    The Scarlet Gown being verses by a St. Andrews Man 1878

  • I have apologized for not attending the Royal Society Club, who have a gaudeamus on this day, and seemed to count much on my being the praeses.

    Sir Walter Scott Hutton, Richard 1878

  • I have apologized for not attending the Royal Society Club, who have a _gaudeamus_ on this day, and seemed to count much on my being the præses.

    Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) Richard Holt Hutton 1861

  • Thus Mr. Sale informs me, the old Arab Tribes would gather in liveliest _gaudeamus_, and sing, and kindle bonfires, and wreathe crowns of honour, and solemnly thank the gods that, in their Tribe too, a Poet had shown himself.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Mr. Sale informs me, the old Arab Tribes would gather in liveliest _gaudeamus, _ and sing, and kindle bonfires, and wreathe crowns of honour, and solemnly thank the gods that, in their

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Just at that instant the landlord, who was standing at the gate of the inn, exclaimed, "Here comes a fine troop of guests; if they stop here we may say gaudeamus."

    The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • Just at that instant the landlord, who was standing at the gate of the inn, exclaimed, "Here comes a fine troop of guests; if they stop here we may say gaudeamus."

    The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 13 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

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