Word: fors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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"What have you got for dessert?"
A warm debate between the two waiters followed, while the hungry audience looked on with prayers for its speedy termination. The question was finally decided against the highly colored John, and the assembly adjourned; John disheartened, and Henry smiling in triumph.
The dessert was brought; and I, a boating-man, made a dinner of a plate of ice-cream and some graham bread. I was thankful even for that, and partook of the feast in silence and meditation. I arose from the table, convinced that the great evil of the Dining...
WHAT a change it is to return from one's summer wanderings to the bustle and hurry of college life! Everything presents such a rude contrast to the things we had become accustomed to during the summer. In a week or two, to be sure, we have dropped into the...
In the morning, for instance, instead of enjoying a quiet sleep, and getting up at a reasonable hour, we are roused by the relentless Jones with his prayer-bell. There is no instrument of torture yet devised by man which can cause more misery than a loud bell rung early...