Word: maying
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...incomprehensibly silly production, entitled "Beatrice : A Flirtation Homily." For the amusement, or rather amazement, of those less unfortunate readers of ours who do not see the Lit., we give an outline of the story. It is that of a conceited puppy whose ideas of man, woman, and flirtation may be seen from the following quotation...
...kind of being you would expect to de scend to the vulgarity of flirting. . . . . But a woman ! as a woman she seems something divine," etc, etc., ad infinitum. The character of the gentleman, who says he is twenty-eight, but who, from strong internal evidence, is barely eighteen, may further be understood from the following remark : "How often have I had a dear foolish girl inflicted upon me, and fairly writhed at the intellectual torture to which she has subjected me by her remarks. But there has been no escape. Everybody would have called me a boor had I ventured...
...erect or rent a building in which to fit up a reading or club room, and to furnish the remainder with bachelor apartments, which can be occupied by the members of the college and their friends. It is understood that the building corner of Twelfth Street and Broadway may be taken...
...question of opening our Library Sunday is to be distinguished from the broad question of opening city libraries on that day. The working-man may, and doubtless does, find in the change from the noisy workshop to the quiet library and from manual to mental labor a real rest. Again, a city library reaches a class of the community which the church has not reached, - a class which needs just such help as a library can give...