Word: oceans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...before our Christmas holiday, a little down east "schoolmarm" desired to take her hand bag and start for Chicago. From Mame to Illinois, to her, seemed a great distance, for never had she ventured from the shadow of her native hills, never gone beyond the sound of dear old Ocean. More than this she must go alone-"a woeful, solitaire mayd." Nothing daunted by slories of disagreeable things which interested friends took pains to relate were sure to happen at this particular season of the year, she enters the sleeper, (for the first time in her life) in Boston...
...trust that a prominent place within the walls of your college may be assigned for this memorial bust, where it will testify to future generations the affectionate and fraternal regard which binds in closest amity the kindred people who speak the same language on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean...
...last drawing themselves up on the long piers that reach out from Sever to University. It is a noble sight, and no doubt the long piers are greatly appreciated, -but do they do much good? A man can get as wet in a small lake as in a large ocean. Some night next spring when the creaking of one of the walks is heard across the yard, we may expect to see the windows opened and to hear prolonged cries of "More...
...than any of the establishments which now are in full swing among the two hundred colleges which are trying to teach the youthful mind how to shoot. Those Harvard students in the year 1776 who yearned after a nautical, or rather a piratical life and the salt of the ocean met together in that year and formed what was then called a "Navy Club." and later earned for itself the title of the "Harvard Navy." For some fourteen years it merely existed, but at the beginning of the century it suddenly sprang into prominance and continued in the full glory...
...Ocean ! in thy depths I'll hide me, in oblivion find delight...