Word: galahads
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...place the favorite dress pumps in the waste-basket, and hide the only white scarf behind the steam pipes? Who will there be to diminish the stock of handkerchiefs and read the letters from home? Who will there be to brush the cobwebs from the picture of Sir Galahad into the cigar humidor? Life will be barren indeed. Who will there be to pick up what the squads left about...
...Addison '96, who died a short time ago. The society also voted to accept a portrait of the late Rev. Mr. Noble loaned by his widow, to be hung up in the Society's rooms. The painting is an ideal one, representing Mr. Noble as Sir Galahad...
...even Launcelot brave nor Galahad clean...
...youth of eighteen who, on entering college, fails to make many good resolutions for his future guidance, is a phenomenon; he who makes and abides by them six months, simply a prodigy. Ah, my rosy-cheeked, jacketed Galahad, talented and spotless, we know very well how your dreams are to be realized! Born and bred in some quiet New England village, where two croquet-parties in the week would be considered downright dissipation, naturally bright and ambitious, urged on by a schoolmaster proud of having the opportunity to fit one man for college, and sustained by the admiration...
Loose thinking upon many subjects is one of the earliest symptoms of Sir Galahad's fall. So many of his boyish beliefs in things both natural and spiritual have to be abandoned as no longer tenable in the clear light of reason, that our knight gets very dainty about defending anything old at all. The argument of a laugh is not easily answerable in college society. It is, moreover, easier to profess pity for blind bigotry than to reason honestly. And students are proverbially lazy...