Word: downs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Cast down thine eyes, let their glances rest
COLLEGE exchanges indescribably dull. Western papers exploding over last year's jokes; Eastern agitated about the intellectual tournament, which (judging from the action of the Hartford convention) has dwindled down into something rather superior to an old-time spelling-match, but inferior to a good peppery debate in some Philopolysyllabic...
Now lay thee down on the damask bed;
*It is said by some that Father Ennius invented shorthand, but Tiro probably originated the notoe by which his master's speeches were taken down.
Toss down beside thee this vellum book.