Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...blare dim discords to the hills sublime...
...there in the firelight dim...
...wish to call attention to one desirable change. Every one who studies there must notice how much easier it is to concentrate his attention upon his books now than it was when, every time he raised his eyes, he caught sight of some fair maiden shut up in a dim recess behind an impassable bar, just like the heroine of a fairy-tale. All this is changed; but still the obstacle to study is not wholly removed. The most inveterate grind can scarcely maintain his composure, and calmly shuffle those puzzling cards in the catalogue, if, on raising his eyes...
...dinner hour. I sauntered through the dim hall, and read the names upon the tablets. Free from the anxiety which had made me oblivious to all the beauties of the building upon my first visit, I was now in a mood to feel the deepest patriotism. But when I found myself regretting that I too had not graduated in time to fall at Gettysburg, I thought it best to interrupt that train of thought, and so I hurried up the dark stairway to the gallery...
...clouds of a century dim not thy youth...