Word: pillow
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...formeth, upon her pillow fair...
Deep, deep under the billow sleeps my love on his hard, cold pillow...
Throw back thy arm on the pillow white...
...Neath the pillow lying...
Perhaps, however, the story is chiefly valuable for affording us glimpses into Yale student life on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. From casual remarks, we gather that whist is a game which is not enjoyed there. Pillow fights are preferred. But even these grow monotonous to the high-spirited Freshmen, and on the afternoon from which the tale dates, we learn that, having stationed watchmen throughout the entries of their building, some Freshmen were indulging in a quadrille. Such an innocent sport is not allowed, however, by the Yale Faculty. It tends directly to worse vices. A step is heard...