Word: asylum
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sitting reading in my room not long ago, my chum suddenly rushed in, and saluted me with - "Hullo, John, do you want to go to the Insane Asylum...
...night, in a body, - men who had been here but a little over a month, and therefore did not know any better, and who are in no sense to be taken as representing Harvard College; and 3d, that as Harvard College is neither a boarding-school nor a lunatic asylum, there is decidedly not discipline enough to keep the students in their rooms...
...supply of eagle plumes, put on fresh war-paint, taken a firm grip of his tomahawk, and once more is on the war-path. He begins by slaughtering the University Press. A mild suggestion follows, that the editor of the OEst. us should be placed in an insane asylum. Then comes a long lesson in spelling, as an unlucky exchange has spelt. "Niagara" "Niagra." And the exchanges end with a biting piece of satire on the Dartmouth, and a hint that its poetical editor, and, indeed, most college poets, had better "learn to handle a shovel or do chores." Verily...
...placed in the Auditor's office in Memorial Hall. To many of us it may seem that these emblems of hard won victories deserve a more prominent place; but they have so long been without any resting-place that we should be thankful that they are now allowed the asylum of even an Auditor's office...
...croak about a wasted life. Pleasure is the only good. So live on merrily, and if you should happen to end your days in an inebriate asylum you would n't care especially, and surely the world would be no great loser...