Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pitiful sight he was given to see...
...magnificence; see how it blows...
...course individual opinion will not much influence the sentiment of the whole class in one direction or another, but there are some men, of whom I profess to be one, who would seriously lament to see this day done away with, fittingly commemorating as it does, in both jollity and seriousness, the successful termination of a laborious course of four years, in some cases five or more...
...signed by a sufficient number to organize some sort of an unofficial celebration, which should serve as a nucleus for spreads, and as a neutral meeting-ground, where the squabbles of the past six months might be forgotten. The representatives of certain sections of the class, however, did not see fit to take this petition in the spirit in which it was laid before them. For reasons best known to themselves, they declined to see in it anything more than a revival of the sectional feuds which it was really intended to allay; and, instead of coming forward to sign...
...acted simply as classmates, was of a totally different nature. Opposition to such a movement was a revival of the very quarrels which the class organization had been supposed to settle; and if a sectional movement in the one direction would have been dishonorable, it is difficult to see how it can be consistently held that a sectional movement in the other direction was in conformity with the strictest rules of honor...