Word: plays
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...same, including library of printed books, bookcases, musical instruments, eye-glasses and canes, statuary and works of art, wearing apparel, beds and bedding, contained in No. -, Thayer Hall, College Yard, Cambridge. Permission to work-extra hours, not later than 10 P. M., to even up work, and to play draw poker until he goes to bed." The young man feels safe...
Then lighting as the last rays idly play...
...your number for January 16 a letter from Cornell University, which stated that "many" of the young women, students of that institution, failed to keep up with their classes, I addressed a note to President White, asking for more detailed information. I rely on your love of fair play for the publication of his answer...
...scarcely say that of people who have acquired the habit of drinking, a tenth, or an approach to a tenth, consent to take the pledge. Even those who take it are not always faithful. The trouble is that by the pledge one motive only for abstaining is brought into play. It is assumed that even the most degraded, whose name has once been signed to a promise, will hesitate before he breaks that promise. Now in the majority of cases it is probable that but little compunction of conscience is felt by such men, when they fail to keep their...
...evanescent play...