Word: recollections
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...next moment my body entered through the open door. It advanced toward the children, meaning as I saw to kill them. And it did kill them while I stood by in a gony. I shall not attempt to describe the murder, for the details of it are confused with recollections of what I had just been reading in De Quincey. What I remember most is my own face glancing at me, as the murder went on, with looks of mockery and hate. Then the room suddenly filled with people. I recollect the chill of fear I felt as the instinct...
...pleasure, and have on every evening drawn out large audiences. Although many of us do not fully agree with the lecturer's conclusions on the great subject of protective tariffs, we nevertheless recognize the ability and eloquence with which these lectures have been prepared, and delivered, and shall recollect Prof. Thompson as a gentleman who has given us his side of this economic question with an ease and grace which has been warmly appreciated...
...known when it first came into possession of the college, but "Appleton pasture" of which the Delta was once a part was added to the college lands in 1786. A prominent graduate of the class of 1821 who has lately died, speaks of the Delta, in a book of recollections as a place where "Turkey Shooting," a very popular pastime, was engaged in by the under-graduates. An enterprising yanker kept the turkeys on the Delta and allowed the students for a small fee to shoot at the birds. He trusted to the inaccuracy of the collegiate marksmanship...
...annual and alwaysto-be-expected streak of Harvard meanness" has again cropped out, especially as the News disapproves, and are really glad to hear that the Courant decides that Yale's claim in regard to the first freshman game is valid. Strange as it may seem, we do not recollect that "Yale has yielded more than once to equally foolish and unfair demands from her rival." We venture a smile at the Courant's sarcasm in urging Yale "to assert a little independence in these matters...
...been called to an editorial in the Yale News in regard to the '86 freshman foot-ball game, I should like to make some comment on the remarks contained therein. As none of the correspondence has been preserved I cannot give details, but I present the case as I recollect it. The News states of our team as follows...