Word: robbing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Scratch Races take place to-morrow at 11. In addition to the races for sixes, fours, and singles, there will be a canoe race and a Rob Roy race...
...without consolation. We have qualified ourselves to appreciate other and higher joys than those which come merely from practical pursuits; and then, however cruel Fortune may be to us hereafter, she can never rob us of the pleasant memory of our stay there, and this surely will make up for many hardships. These are ample returns for becoming a trifle impractical by going through college. But for the time being I find, in the book before quoted, a consolation of the dum vivimus vivamus sort, which I offer as a comfort to any Senior who is sorrowing that he must...
...luxury of feeling our not yet vanished weariness of the day before dissipating with each slightest motion is indescribable, and thought by the ancients worthy of the perpetual enjoyment of the gods. Alas! what infinitely lesser powers now vindicate it as their prerogative, and daily dare to rob us of it, leaving no apology, no consolation behind. There is a fable which tells how an old goose and a young duck once found a hole in the ice in winter-time, and how, though the goose could not be induced to accompany the duck into the water, partly by praises...
...never seen him, - few men have; but to disbelieve in him would be folly. Are not strange but authentic stories told of his midnight appearances at ill-fated rooms? Have we not watched for him on long and wearisome nights, when - to our relief - he did not attempt to rob us of our coal? His whereabouts are uncertain. Once he entered - through a window - the lower floor of Grays. Once he hid - must it be confessed that he instinctively chose a place of security? - in a Holyoke bath...