Word: died
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Since the days that were spent with thee die...
That draws us unto beauty till we die...
...will be felt in one of two ways. Either the societies, released from the control which their position in the Yard has given the authorities over them, will degenerate into noisy, less respectable, and more attractive institutions, or the interest in them, which cannot now be called intense, will die out altogether. The first result would unquestionably be bad; the second might be either bad or good. If the little remaining interest dies out of the societies, it will be transferred to something else, and according as this something else is better or worse than the society, the influence...
...protest against this innovation, which will turn our gay and lively College into a graveyard with walking tombstones. Pray do not let the spirit of jovial good-fellowship die out within us. To be sure, women and old fogies apply harsh names to these innocent pastimes of youth; but what of that? Let us stand up like men against the tyranny of Mrs. Grundy. Without these jollifications life now would be doleful, and in the future no pleasant memories of college days would throng around...
...soon, brain-sick, we fall away and die...