Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...substance. All our dreams are permeated with a consciousness of power to control them, yet no enjoyment could seem more real or be more unalloyed. The frosty air of winter stealing in about our ears and among the tangles of our hair makes us the more sensible of the comfort of warmth and repose. The cool, fresh, fragrant breaths of a summer morning drifting through the open window are most delightfully mingled with our dreams. Vainly will others extol to us the virtues of great draughts of the freshest, clearest hours of the day; these we, too, taste and delicately...
...eight hundred persons. Why should not Commons be removed thither? According to the present plan this hall is to be used on one day alone during the year, - for the dinner of the Alumni. We hope that that Association will yield one of its privileges, and confer health and comfort on hundreds who will come here when our college life is but a memory...