Word: day
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...poor little curate, who called the next day...
...Every evening, the Seniors practise singing for Class Day...
...discover what are all the latent psychological causes of Seventy-seven's present imbroglio in reference to Class Day, will require the skill of some future writer who has brought the historical method down to a finer point of "coldness" than I can now boast of; but this is certain, that the rock of mutual mistrust and obstinacy they split on is still in existence for the next class to be shattered on, and it behooves Seventy-eight, if she wishes to keep up this time-honored custom of our fathers, to take warning. Already there is noticeable among...
...course individual opinion will not much influence the sentiment of the whole class in one direction or another, but there are some men, of whom I profess to be one, who would seriously lament to see this day done away with, fittingly commemorating as it does, in both jollity and seriousness, the successful termination of a laborious course of four years, in some cases five or more...
This is a day when, in listening to the poet's and the orator's words, petty feelings of inequality, of jealousies, are forgotten and buried, when one more band is woven which firmly binds, in the dearest friendship, men who otherwise would hardly know one another...