Word: brains
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...calm and cool life-heated heart and brain...
...college, and retained through life the scholarly tastes which would have promised success in a literary career. For the last quarter of a century or more he has filled the office of Secretary, and without assistance till his work outgrew the possible capacity of a single hand or brain. It is difficult to estimate the amount and diversity of the demands upon him in conducting confidential correspondence, in the minute and delicate calculations connected with the rank-list, in constructing tables of college-statistics, in superintending arrangements for examinations, and in so ordering the details of the academic routine...
...soon began to fear that my partner's emotions had struck her dumb, for in vain I completely exhausted the standing army of society topics. The biggest stones that I could hurl upon the ice of her demeanor did not crack it. With the crowbar of my brain, I rolled down huge scientific boulders, but with no effect whatever. I tried thawing; my fire was built of the arts, kindled with compliments, and the heat was raised with a strong blast of enthusiasm, but all with no result. I even swept the whole range of a young lady's conceits...
...mild sort of lunacy steals o'er my brain...
MELVIN HASBROUCK, of the Class of '78, died suddenly of brain-fever at his home, Poug keepsie, N. Y., Tuesday, March...