Word: groups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cool May evening at Oberlin. The students were sitting under the trees singing hymns or playing squat-tag and blind-man's-buff on the campus. Here and there a kindly-faced professor might be seen playing puss-in-the-corner with a merry group of girls, a copy of OEdipus peeping out of one of his pockets and a Revised New Testament out of another. But one by one the happy revellers ceased their sport, and in parties of two or three withdrew to their respective dormitories...
...three, unconscious how "the gods made mock at us," sat late into the starlight night, and no one could know that our hearts were not at peace. I can hear the light laughter of more than one happy group of people on that piazza yet; so great a part does commonplace play in this life of ours...