Word: objections
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...arrived a little late, but entered with a light heart, only to find my fair hopes an exploded dream, for there was the object of my self-sacrifice directing the full force of her charms - Ye Gods! what a power! - upon Mr. Lowbrow Fairface. Duty chuckled audibly and Conscience taunted me. But I did n't "chew my dear heart," following the example of Homeric heroes. I rushed up stairs, a little dazed, but registering a mighty oath that rather than be balked by a coquette's deceits, I would dance with the Furies and find beauty in them...
...however, with the thought that, by such uninterrupted opportunity of speech as I seemed destined to have during the evening, I should soon, by this practice, acquire that refined and intelligent use of the mother-tongue which, according to the most recent utterances of the Faculty, is the chief object of education. But I soon began to fear that my partner's emotions had struck her dumb, for in vain I completely exhausted the standing army of society topics. The biggest stones that I could hurl upon the ice of her demeanor did not crack it. With the crowbar...
...them. The Lacrosse team is a good one, but they have never played a match game since their organization. Let them wait till they have done something more than to play practice games in Cambridge, - in a word, till they have earned their colors, and then no one will object to their wearing them...
INSTRUCTOR in Optics: "Yes, gentlemen, you may experience this curious phenomenon of seeing double by gazing fixedly at any object for a short time. I myself have frequently observed double lampposts." Class woods up. (Fact...
...estimated expenses of the Crew at Saratoga are seven hundred dollars, and there is at present only sufficient money in the treasury to meet the expenses at New London. The College has been thoroughly canvassed: further attempts to raise money by subscription would be in vain. The object of the concert to be given next Friday evening, May 23, in Sanders Theatre, by the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality, is to furnish the money necessary for meeting these expenses. The programme - both songs and orchestral numbers - will be new; Memorial Hall is to be cleared for dancing after the concert...