Word: resting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Yale, and probably from Amherst and Dartmouth. There is, therefore, every indication that the regatta of 1875 will be well managed, and that it will be of the greatest interest. Let us do everything we can to further the success of our crews, by making up immediately the rest of the money needed for their expenses...
...content with these exertions, I elected Fine Arts, and here my trouble began. All went well for the first half, and though nothing definite has been heard from the Blue Book of the midyear, yet I rest under the firm conviction that the result was a good hundred. Then, too, Mr. Perkins's lectures must not be neglected, and judge how my feelings were gratified by a glowing eulogy of etching as the highest field of engraving. With what light steps did I attend the next lectures in my favorite elective! But "put not your trust in professors." What...
...emptied, when, substituting glasses of smaller size, they begin their matches. One of their amusements is to raise their glasses at the same time, and drink in such perfect unison that, on setting them down, they say, "One, two, three," together. If any one drinks faster than the rest, or, in order to shout, sets his glass down before it is emptied, he pays for the company on the following trial. Next comes a song in which the chorus is intermingled with the striking of the glasses together. They generally keep up the bout till an early hour...
...seemed fated to find no rest in South America, I have returned, and am prosecuting my search after happiness at present in the wild waste known as the Quadrangle, with slightly brighter prospects...
Then would I rest, and ne'er again...