Word: golden
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Through the gay leaves' golden glory...
Among the grim influences of Puritan Boston, our benevolent Goose cherished her golden eggs of fancy. "The Swan of Avon is not the only bird that has made melody for all time." If we do not fear to make this comparison, we certainly shall not shrink from placing our author beside her contemporaries in that chill time, the grave Judge Sewall, and Governor Bradstreet's uncanny sister, who is remembered unpleasantly even at this day. Beside the utterances of the Judge, which breathe the spirit of the time, the spirit of funerals and of work, the cheerful rhymes of Mother...
...must earnestly protest against the zeal which certain instructors displayed in the manner of conducting recitations during such weather as that of last week. Faithfulness to one's department is admired by none more than by us. But even in faithfulness, there is a golden mean. Some instructors did have the kindness to dismiss their sections after a short recitation. Others, however, persisted in keeping their sections crowded together, without regard to health, as though students were so many sheep. This may be endurable in some rooms, but in University, especially U. E. R., it is too much for instructors...
...Brown-golden, and lips of rose...
Galleons fraught with golden lading...