Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...certain sense all members of one great family? And is it not fitting that the family should all be together once every day? I can't see why it should be considered a hardship to attend chapel, except by those men who indulge in expensive "sprees" and go to bed at 2 A. M., regularly. It certainly doesn't hurt any man who can get up at 8 o'clock, to spend fifteen minutes in the chapel before going to recitations, and if it doesn't, where does the grievance come in? The old custom of compelling attendance at morning...
...find that I cannot sleep while my friends are making their music. As I write, the hour is past ten P. M. I am waiting for one violin to stop. All the other instruments became silent some time ago As soon as the violin stops, I shall go to bed. Later. It has stopped; but the violinist has begun to sing. I must wait another hour. Perhaps, if this is printed. It may catch my friend's eye, and enable me to go to bed earlier hereafter...
...Oxford and Cambridge undergraduate's Journal will be found many incidents which find their counterpart at our own university. "One touch of nature makes the world kin," and our students will fully appreciate the pathos of the account of the English undergraduate's struggle with the haughty goody, anglice, "bed-make...
...streets of the Alma Mater in a style that savors either of fire or examination time. Anxious faces are to be seen peering nervously into every shop window, and consulting in a furtive manner memoranda of purchases to be accomplished post-haste, according to the directions of the inexorable bed-maker or landlady. Most unhappy of all appear the Freshmen who make their purchases under the supervision of an indulgent father, guardian, or uncle, and who seem to say by their conscious and almost guilty look, "Yes, we are Freshmen, but we really cannot help it." It is a curious...
...generations of undergraduates is palmed off as "the very last purchis which Mr. Blank made, and he was a real gentleman he was, and behaved like one." Mr. Blank- the real gentleman- the immediate predecessor in one's room, is generally discovered afterwards not to have displayed toward the bed-maker the extraordinary quality with which she persists in crediting him; indeed he very often turns out to have had a very low opinion of that amiable lady's character as developed by the work she did, or is supposed to have done...