Word: eleusinian
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Dean's office, to my astonishment, I found no one there. There I was, all alone, in the Secretary's room, with but a threshold between me and the President's office, - the seat of those Faculty meetings, which I could never help associating in my mind with the Eleusinian mysteries. It had always been my fondest desire to become an unnoticed witness of one of these meetings. Here was my chance. Could I not conceal myself, and thus witness all the proceedings of the august body? I was aware of the dangers of such an undertaking. Specials, suspensions, expulsion...