Word: bless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Scene, chapel: Professor praying and certain preps studying - "Bless, we pray Thee, the students now studying here." Sensation among the preps. [Argo...
...good time, and that but little work is done. Dissipation, athletic sports, frivolity of all sorts, we fancy, is the business of an Eastern college man. Now this is unjust, and a candid student will not be prejudiced by suoh views." Dissipation, athletic sports, frivolity of all kinds - bless us, what a Satanic trio! And we have been guilty of such things...
...Bless me! here we have a case that would stir the blood of age to mutiny, (or something of that sort,)-dark hints of fraudulent returns at Memorial, exorbitant charges, special meetings, and all that, which anywhere else would call for investigation by the citizens' association, at least. But what do these Harvard men do? Do they hold a mass-meeting, and have speeches and resolutions and reports, et cetera? No, indeed! On the contrary they tamely submit; they leave Memorial in abject fear, and deliver over its fair precincts into the hands of the tyrants? This is the reward...
...silly fellow, when you are the only one to profit by it? If they dress well, talk well, even flirt just a little bit, we don't care about having them any different than they really are, and with all due regard for our grandmothers, we say, God bless the girls of today, and keep them as they...
...Bless me!" cried the stranger, so suddenly that every one turned in his direction. "Is the woman as poor as all that...