Word: guardedly
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...guard upon the altars of our love...
...guard the Aurora's Paradise...
...college, and sustained by the admiration of a circle of unlettered relatives, you are, all at once, removed to a position totally different. Surroundings, duties, pleasures, everything is unfamiliar. You are, in fact, transplanted from easy-going boyhood, with loving hands ever ready to guard you from the first approach of trouble or temptation, to a station imposing upon you the responsibilities of manhood, without experience or preparation. Can it justly be a matter of surprise that at your annual visits home old friends will find you changed? Not necessarily gone to the bad, of course, but with a good...
...Chapel at 11 A. M. in sufficient numbers to show that that building, even with its improved accommodations, will not be large enough for future public college exercises. A noticeable feature at the Chapel was the substitution of stalwart Junior ushers for the armed policemen who used to guard the entrance to the parish church on Class-Day mornings. The most belligerent Freshman could find no excuse for a rush, and everything was quiet and orderly...
...ball-playing, and for the next two hours dinner occupied the minds of all. In some cases we fear it was rather the minds than the stomachs, for never before in Springfield hotels had the demand for food so exceeded the supply. As early as 12.30 the advance guard of the exodus to the river started, and from that time until 4 the roads leading to either bank were thronged with every description of vehicle the ingenuity of man has devised for the last century. Every horse, carriage, and passenger was profusely decorated with some college color. Every cane, whip...