Word: loved
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Then take the wings of conquering love...
SHIPKINS, '83, is in love. He has repeatedly assured his friends of the fact, and, when he heard of the Spring Athletics, he felt that the chance had come to display his nine-month College culture to his charmer. Accordingly, after carefully studying a Sophomore's notes on Rhetoric lectures, he sent her a nicely written postal inviting her and another young lady (whom he generously purposed to bestow on his chum) to come to Cambridge and witness the sports...
Thus he was engaged, doing the agreeable, and was flattering himself that he was becoming a genuine "Little-Tin-God," when, to his unspeakable horror, what did he see but his own true-love, with her friend and an upper classman, whom he recognized as a relative of the latter, entering the field and taking a seat on a neighboring bench. Shipkins could have met annihilation with calm satisfaction, but to meet her, - her whom he had invited and then failed to meet, and for her to see him with another, - it was too much...
...best to be off wi' the old love...
Would suffice your love-sick Caius...