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...sway. That timid idea, so tentatively proposed by the Governing Board will not be adopted at Harvard. The stern spirits of every Puritan from Miles Standish to Cotton Mather arise in solemn protest. We see the inventor of the original "New England conscience" deliver his fateful warning.--Never. The drear halls of Sever shall not be made frivolous. No shall they invade the awful precincts of "Mem". For this is your God: Education. And Education is austere. Elseit were not Education. Amen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CO-EDS AT HARVARD | 4/15/1920 | See Source »

...drear, and dark, and gloom, as thou hast often seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO A COQUETTE. | 2/9/1883 | See Source »

...place that is drear and sombre and queer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A VISIT TO A YOUNG M.D. | 12/10/1880 | See Source »

...Drear and dun, all in a mist-land airy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DE ARTE POETICA. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...soon will come the drear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BREAKFAST. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

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