Word: bedding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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What the objectionable cake was, how it was made, and why the authorities disliked it, we shall never know. But certain it is that after this dreadful order was passed, Jacobus and Guilliemus with a taste for "Plumb Cake," must have gone to bed hungry after burning the midnight oil, or else have incurred the penalty of the college...
...were willing to brave the risk of being found out, and take a slide on the hills. We have been coasting many times, but nothing equals coasting with Wellesley girls on a moonlight night. We wish there was space to describe the "heathen" bell that calls the students from bed at six o'clock in the morning and summons them to chapel,-to describe the chapel itself,-the Browning room and the library. Late in the evening we reluctantly left the college...
...stream, is motion and action. Now this will, by its free activity might enslave itself to passion or ambition, somewhat as the stream, by the force of its own current, might heap up obstacles in its way; yet with this difference, that the stream gathers these obstacles from its bed, while the will finds its dangers only in the intellect of which it is the expression. And as the stream, choked by what it has collected, is stemmed and blocked, until the rains swell its torrent and burst the barrier; so the will, enslaved by its own surrender, frets impotently...
...trying for the university crew were sent to bed at 9.30, Monday night...
...elusive and unattainable yodel, at all hours of the day and night. He kneels at his inamorata's shrine when first he wakes; and at the solemn hours of mid-night he flats a few sweet notes as the last strain of his farewell serenade before he goes to bed, or in the early morning he chirps out his cheerful clear-toned song to tell his fellow birds that he is up. He must be deaf; for surely he cannot hear the beloved yodel say-"not this eve," each time he passionately offers himself. He continues unceasingly to offer himself...