Word: room
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Dean's daily reception. After perusing it for a few moments, I determined to put off my visit till the afternoon. At five o'clock, on arriving at the Dean's office, to my astonishment, I found no one there. There I was, all alone, in the Secretary's room, with but a threshold between me and the President's office, - the seat of those Faculty meetings, which I could never help associating in my mind with the Eleusinian mysteries. It had always been my fondest desire to become an unnoticed witness of one of these meetings. Here...
This glorious plan so excited me that, forgetting my situation, I rushed from my place of concealment, and burst out into loud hurrahs and cheers. The speaker stopped, everybody started, and cries of "Treason!" and "Put him out!" were heard all over the room. I was seized by the collar, and, before I could collect my senses, a rope was fastened around my neck, and to my horror I found that my fears of suspension were about to be realized. For the Professors fastened the rope round a pulley and began to raise me into the air. As soon...
...goody entered the room the other morning, and, approaching us, said in a mysterious manner...
...Please, sir, the key to this room has fits...
This quotation needs no comment. The technical, almost quibbling manner in which the classics are sometimes treated is in danger of running their study into the ground; and unless a man pursues his reading outside of the class-room, even a four years' election of classics will afford no general idea of this field of literature...