Word: mornings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Looks out to sea at the morn...
...most barbarous, was the custom of corporeal punishment. This was one of the early customs in our College. Then were stripes for cutting prayers, now three deductions; the mere comparison would almost induce us to absent ourselves for an indefinite period from the "devotional exercises at early morn." Admonitions and marks are of comparatively recent date, and perhaps even these may yet give place to a more perfect system. Thus, as the age advances, more and more is left to the sense of duty, and who can deny that a century hence even censure-marks may be looked upon...
...TWAS Sunday morn at a stylish church...
...always hit at the Index Niagarensis, as it is the butt of every little high-school journal. A very "cambric tea" article, radiant with "blushing morn," "scarlet horizon," the welcoming of days "rousing sweet melancholy" in "the lymphatic and phlegmatic natures among us," gives us a feeling of sleepiness truly irresistible. We will not tell how "sanguine and choleric blood is bluishly affected," or relate the touching apostrophe to "Ontario not as yet loosened from the embrace of her frozen foe," but we ought to say that "Richard and his horse" is made to do good service. A tolling bell...
...morn to pale, the gates to be open flung