Word: happen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Think what would happen if we could fancy during our waking hours the visions that flit through our minds when asleep! Why, we should all be poets. Charles Lamb was mortified by the "poverty" of his dreams, and envied Coleridge, who at his will, could conjure up airy domes and pleasure houses for Kubla Khan and Abyssinian maids, to solace his night solitudes, while he, Lamb, could not muster a fiddle. And so he concludes that there was nothing inspired in his own poetry. I must confess to having felt the same mortification. There is my friend...
Unless at least seven more men sign their names in the book at Bartlett's by this evening, the dinner will have to be given up. It is to be hoped that this will not happen, as it would put the club in an awkward position to-wards its guests who have accepted the invitation to be present at the dinner...
...faculty will refuse to recognize the anniversary of the nativity of him whom posterity has come to recognize as "First in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." To prophesy this, it may be said, required no daring; a thing which always has happened, always will happen, it is safe...
...never had she ventured from the shadow of her native hills, never gone beyond the sound of dear old Ocean. More than this she must go alone-"a woeful, solitaire mayd." Nothing daunted by slories of disagreeable things which interested friends took pains to relate were sure to happen at this particular season of the year, she enters the sleeper, (for the first time in her life) in Boston, one Saturday night, only to behold with horror the worst of these stories true-she is to be the only lady in this...
...deemed the best interests of Harvard. This being the case, why would not such a committee be of service in the future? Most decidedly it would. But it also seems impossible that there should never be a disagreement between the committee and the under-graduates. When the two do happen to be at loggerheads, one side must give way; and this time the committee's turn to yield has come. If only as a matter of courtesy, however, the letter should be acted upon at once. The boat club ought to have a meeting, everyone should go and action...