Word: affectionateness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is no finer effort of the imaginary than that which at times like this clothes a great institution with personality and makes it live in all the fullness of intelligence, and affection, and will. It is not an uncommon power. The first powers are not those which are exceptional...
The old question of intellect versus affection has been annoying the young ladies of Oberlin to such a degree that they have been holding lively debates over it in a meeting of one of the Oberlin literary societies. That such a subject should gain prominence at Oberlin, and not only...
They recall with gratitude the great and repeated benefactions by which he marked his life-long affection for the institution which once took him under its fostering care, and his resolution to secure the same blessing for his successors among the students of the academy in the generations to come...
Yesterday the first revolutions of the cumbrous wheels of the college machine made us aware that a new, and for many of us the final, year of student life had begun. To-day the mill is in full swing, busily engaged in the task of grinding out its annual grist...
This certainly indicates despair or madness, but no! His wounded affections were soon healed, and shortly, he writes that: "I am indeed glad to be rid of her," and proceeds to renew a correspondence he had formerly held with a "charming Dutch woman." This affection, and still another, he quickly...