Word: dwelling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...doer of this great work, Fate, who metes out justice to all, will not suffer to go unrewarded. The spirits of Stoughton, Hollis, and Holworthy, his precursors in earthly benefaction, now dwell in Elysian fields of perpetual bliss...
Where never a mortal was known to dwell...
...Dwell Joy and Sorrow...
...spent. If I do not derive some benefit, at least, from these ruminations, it at any rate seldom happens that I think to-night on the subject of last night; but since this cold weather has set in, my thoughts hitch each time on the same point. I invariably dwell upon the temperature of my room, and find myself repeating again and again those expressions of discontent that are apt to proceed from a man who sees before him a blazing fire, but feels around him an intolerable chill. This troubled condition of mind forces me to unburden myself...
...subject of pecuniary aid to students, discussed by the President in his late report, is not entirely disconnected with other affairs in the College which it was not the business of the report to dwell upon. The fact that the present system of pecuniary assistance is not a success reminds me of other things about which the same thing might be said. The trouble, as I see it, is that the underlying principle is wrong. The aid is given as a means, and is not made an end; it is bestowed as a crust is flung to a beggar...