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...Bicycle Club will take a run to Auburndale this afternoon, taking dinner at the Woodlawn Park Hotel, and returning by moonlight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/28/1885 | See Source »

...always been very eager to know what was the first dream of man. But there is, certainly, no good reason for doubting that to Adam in his lonely bliss in the garden, there came his first sad experience of life, as he lay asleep under the trees on a moonlight night before the creation of Eve, and that as the rib was taken from his side he groaned heavily and dreamed that the pleurisy was tormenting him. I must believe that believe that this was the original of all dreams. Since that dream, indeed, millions of sons of Adam have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Dreams. | 3/26/1885 | See Source »

...helped before eating. After tea, we had the good fortune to meet some young ladies who were willing to brave the risk of being found out, and take a slide on the hills. We have been coasting many times, but nothing equals coasting with Wellesley girls on a moonlight night. We wish there was space to describe the "heathen" bell that calls the students from bed at six o'clock in the morning and summons them to chapel,-to describe the chapel itself,-the Browning room and the library. Late in the evening we reluctantly left the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Reception at Wellesley. | 3/2/1885 | See Source »

...stone break-water; then it loiters idly, hour after hour, in the still waters near the shore. It floates under the noonday sun, and sees the hooks and lines of innumerable lazy fishermen and the naked legs of bathers in the floating baths. It floats in the cold moonlight and bobs aimlessly against the bottoms of the anchored boats, thump, thump, thump, gently and aimlessly. It drifts against a pier, and the purpled fingers are actually washed against a rope which is dangling into the water; but they cannot grasp It-indeed, it is doubtful if they wish to; what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Description of the Paris Morgue. | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

...hoped that the bicycle club may enjoy another ride and supper soon. The moon will be just right in a week or so for a magnificent moonlight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/23/1884 | See Source »

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