Word: offing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
No tranquil waters undisturbed by lashing wheels of mills,
Below, I heard the busy hum of many a rattling mill;
PERHAPS it is in accordance with the saying that there is no pleasure without its pain that an examination in Greek has been assigned to the Freshmen on the Saturday following Thanksgiving. Hitherto it has been the custom to give to the entire college a recess from ten o'clock...
If, before, it was considered hardly right to make any one return for a recitation, though the preparation of this took up but a short time of the vacation, is it just, now, to impose upon us an examination in preparation for which, if we hope to pass at all...
If the Faculty would reconsider the case and remove this burden from our minds, they would render the thanksgivings of many much more hearty and sincere than they otherwise would be.