Word: gropes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often men are detained until after that hour, either by business or pleasure, and it is not agreeable, to say the least, on entering the building at ten minutes after twelve to find it shrouded in Egyptian darkness. One must cautiously feel his way up any number of stairs, grope slowly along the corridor, learning where to turn by putting his hand on the friendly wall; and after he has rounded the corner and made the door of his room he must again resort to his sense of feeling in order to find the key-hole. It seems absurd that...
...runs should be finished before dark, as the pleasure in much decreased if the hounds have to grope around in the dark, hunting after the scent...
...dislike to light which is one of the characteristics of the college buildings, shown elsewhere in the case of that gymnasium lamp and also the lamp at Memorial. To return from the theatre or a call in Boston after the fatal hour of eleven, and be obliged to grope one's way up stairs, does not leave one in a comfortable state of mind,-or of body, for that matter, as the latter often comes in contact with the walls and balustrades. Bad as this custom is under ordinary circumstances, how much worse it would be in cases of fire...
...useful thing for the college papers to maintain their traditional custom of annually discussing the evils of compulsory attendance at chapel. A fervent faith can doubtless see in the dim future the final realization of all our hopes in this matter, and therefore those of us who blindly grope, and have almost despaired of any such millennium, should without doubt do their utmost for the final abolition of these evil regulations by means of continual protest and energetic petition. The thought that a distant posterity will profit by our exertions, can fill us with a melancholy satisfaction...