Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...description of the little old lady is so telling as to be worthy quoting, though it consists of only two sentences. "She must have been about sixty, but her face was one of those so thoroughly good that they almost seem pretty. Her dress was exquisitely neat, and her hair was drawn smoothly back from the forehead and partly hidden by an immaculate white...
...efficient profession by constant attendance on christian worship and ordinances and by taking your modest port in such associations for religious improvement as have your confidence and sympathy. Follow the leading of your own enlightened conscience by letting no cumulative force of example or persuasio turn you one hair's breadth from what you regard as your duty; by making your own way through college a right line, a straight line in the direct way from earth to heaven. Make your uttered profession whenever your silence would mean assent or indifference. Show your colors and stand by them...
LOST.- On Thursday last, a shell hair pin. Finder please leave at CRIMSON office...
...Common Marriage" is a thoughtful character study and story of that not uncommon species of man who fancies himself in love with a pretty woman because he takes pleasure in the faint evasive perfume of her hair, in being on the same divan with her, in leaning against the same cushions, and in watching her quick breathing,-who goes a step farther and becomes engaged to her, recognizing his mistake, yet incapable of sufficient will-power and courage to make a clean breast of it and effectually to relieve the entanglement,-who takes the final step and becomes her husband...
...Peabody's work as a college preacher has been eminently successful. In 1881, while in the bloom of his work he layed down his charge to be taken up by younger hands. And yet Dr. Peabody is not old. Though his hair has turned white, his love and spirit for kind works are as fresh and young as ever. Since he resigned his position as preacher, he has been active in writing and translating, and now and then the college has the pleasure of listening to him in Appleton Chapel...