Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...vocal sound than has been heard in Chapel within our recollection. Furthermore, all must and do admit that the service would be made much pleasanter by a general participation in the singing. Can it be that anything so contemptible as the fear of not doing the "proper thing" can keep men from such participation? We cannot believe that such is the case. Since, then, we can sing, and since all of us would gladly have better singing, let us begin at once, and make the hymns something more than the performance of the gentlemen of the loft...
...Remembering that, according to old Izaak, a rosy dairy-maid was to refresh me at noon with new milk, I put on my white flannel suit with some care and started off. My journey to the brook was a modern Anabasis, - ???, - "just three miles" did that brook keep ahead of me throughout the fifteen I walked. I learned this from passing countrymen, and argument and expostulation failed to shorten the distance one yard. "Just three miles" is the only unit of long measure used in New Hampshire...
...seeks to keep her in the path...
...during the afternoon and evening, and for the first time within out recollection it was possible to dance there with comfort. The success of the dancing was due to the efforts of the ushers, who, by constant care, succeeded in managing the crowd in such a way as to keep the floor clear. Great credit is also due to the marshals, Mr. Bowen, Mr. Crocker, and Mr. Mercer, for their excellent management, and the thanks of both the Class of '79 and of the College are due to the Class-Day Committee, Mr. J. T. Coolidge, Mr. Hanks...
...hope that our athletes will not go out of training entirely during the summer, but keep in training and compete in the Summer Athletic sports, so that they may be fit and ready for work in the fall. In spite of the gap '79 has left, we may look forward hopefully to the meeting at Mott Haven next year, as we still have left men who, good as they are at their respective distances, can yet materially improve their records by being even only moderately faithful to their work during the next three months. From a conversation with a well...