Word: laying
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There should be no distinction of persons, and "gentlemen of distinction and prominent standing in the University" - no matter if they are unfortunate enough to be extremely susceptible to cold - should, by being guilty of this impoliteness, lay themselves open to the reproof which they justly deserve. We should imagine that such gentlemen would have the sense to choose a time more fitting than that during the hours of meals to pay their visits to Memorial Hall...
...bringing your hopeful son to the kindly arms of Alma Mater. With pride will you point out the place where you were arrested by the Port peeler. Approaching the then venerable Holyoke House, you will say, "Here, my son, is the very gutter in which I lay till the kind arms of comrades carried me to bed." With what admiring awe will your son regard you, and how he will endeavor to tread in the steps of his illustrious sire...
Hearing the nightingale's low throbbing lay...
...raptured soul, as, lingering on thy lay...
...Club men may learn something of art, and in the Institute they may get some little practice in speaking; but as far as I am aware, neither of these societies pretends to anything more, and, as long as they make no such pretence, they do not, in my opinion, lay themselves open to the charge of hypocrisy...