Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ruminating one evening, about a fortnight ago, on Addison's portrayal of the discontent of man, I insensibly fell asleep. Suddenly it seemed that the Faculty had issued a proclamation that all in the University should bring their griefs and calamities and throw them down in one heap. Holmes Field was chosen for the purpose. I took my stand in the centre, and saw with a great deal of pleasure the whole College marching, one after another, and laying down their several loads. There was a certain lady, of thin, airy shape, who seemed to have the management...
...elective. My heart melted to see my companions groaning under their respective loads. There were, however, one or two persons who gave me great diversion. I observed a swell Senior bringing in a bundle carefully concealed under a polished silk hat, which, on his throwing it down in the heap, I discovered to be a bill at Carl's. A Junior, after a great deal of puffing, threw down his luggage, which, on examination, I found to be his flabby chum. There were numbers of black eyes and sore heads; and, strange to relate, those who had thrown these down...
...that people will not be better than the books they read." Not better than the books they read? Great Heavens! Do you not tremble for our instructors? Are they to descend at last to the level of the blue book? Are they to be no better than that "wretched heap and hotch-potch of words and ideas"? Alas! what a horrible destiny! But ought they not to be rescued? Ought not the system to be abolished, and our instructors saved? A few more years of this diet of so many husks and so few kernels, a few more years...