Word: adjournment
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...Miss C., don't you think, aw, a lecture is a trifle stupid, aw? Let's adjourn for a week...
CHORUS OF L. S. Aw, yes; let's adjourn...
...University Nines of Yale and Harvard. Then from five o'clock to ten we shall have the regular traditional exercises of Class Day. The amount of festivity which will prevail during these hours is unfortunately an uncertain quantity. If we win the match, the spectators of the contest will adjourn to the various spreads with light hearts and excellent appetites, the evening will wear happily away, and when the lanterns begin to fall our guests will reluctantly depart from the scene of revelry. If a cruel fate decides the contest otherwise, the result will be - But no, we decline...
...There is not much singing in the College Yard." There is, however, more than at any other time in the last four years. "Friday nights the students adjourn from the society meetings (literary) to the Yard, and sing the choruses to such songs as 'Rule Britannia,' 'Cockles and Muscles,' and 'Rumstio.' Sometimes they sing in time and tune, but more often both these important elements are lacking, and the result is anything but musical." Perhaps to so extremely sensitive an ear as our author possesses, our time and tune may seem very bad. It is easy to see that some...
...went where our Congress doth adjourn...