Word: landing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When I entered, my mind well primed with the stock books on Harvard, I had exalted ideas of accomplishing great deeds on land and water. I first essayed football. One afternoon sufficed to convince me that I was not a second Herbert Leeds, and that frequent collisions with mother earth were not becoming to my style of beauty. To this day my neck has not recovered from the twist it received that afternoon when I rolled on Holmes Field beneath Harrington...
From every State in all the land...
...life, when I gradually ceased to be much elated over the result of my eclaircissements, and in fact didn't care much about Amy or myself or anybody else. My head began to whirl and ache, and with every pitch of the boat I longed to get to land somewhere, though it was on the bottom; and rather preferred the latter place. Amy looked at me in a frightened sort of a way, and wanted to know if I felt well; and, if I recollect aright, I informed her that it was none of her confounded biz. The boat...
Drear and dun, all in a mist-land airy...
...fare now? I am at last in condition of writing from the land of the East. America is a large country. A son of the heavenly empire, should he divest himself of his club feet, could walk from one end of the country to another in no less than a year. The ship which I took at Canton brought me first to San Francisco. The people of that city showed me great respect. Whenever they saw me on the street, they crowded around me and shouted "Oh, see the Chinaman; pull his pigtail; knock him down!" - expressions which, my interpreter...