Word: ones
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...started and looked suspicious as the N. C. broke suddenly off, and rose, saying, "Thanks for information. Don't trouble yourself about a card. Here's mine." And with the light step and smiling face of a true philanthropist, passed rapidly up one of the side streets near Beck Hall and disappeared. The T. F. seemed amazed, but this was nothing to the expression which came over his face as he read on the pasteboard...
CLASS DAY has two sides. The Senior's side is bright; the world seems made for him, at least for that one day. But for the undergraduate who has had to give up his room and has no friends present, Class Day has its dark side; he is lonely in spite of the gayety around him. Such a melancholy undergraduate linked his arm in mine as we crossed the Yard after the lights were out, and poured forth the following lament...
...meet any friends? O yes, at Memorial Hall I met Miss DeLancy, whom I used to know at home. She seemed much amused at seeing me, and asked me how I got in. I had one waltz with her, during which she said that '79 was her class, and asked me if I did n't wish I had been born a year earlier. Then up came an officious Senior and whisked her off to see the illuminations...
...What a shiftless fellow the owner of this room must be!' said one fair visitor. 'He ought to have a wife to look after...
...There, that will do," said I. "One man like you is enough to cast a gloom over the happiest occasion." And as I bade him good night I advised him not to trouble any Seniors with his melancholy thoughts...