Word: cask
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that I would have a soft thing on geology while at sea, I thought of taking that, but I have given it up, for they tell me one of the Yale professors lectures three times a week in that course, and nine hours of laboratory work in the "harness-cask" are required...
...good old days when, if I may trust tradition, a cask containing a quantity of good cheer from a neighboring distillery (Medford, so saith the legend) was set up in the middle of the Yard, where the weary and footsore might refresh body and soul, are gone. "Cultchar" did this, and probably to excessively great development of the aesthetic on one side and too little on the other, much of the present obfuscation is due. From some quarters, now that the deed is done, much unavailing regret is heard in Seventy-seven. But never yet, as far as I have...
...heart was preserved in a single cask...