Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rulers on the question, and it seemed certain that my enemy would be successful. In anger and bitterness of spirit I walked the grass before the Hall. A fierce gale was raging, and above gigantic wind-torn clouds rushed across the sky. Suddenly, in the gloom, a shape, black as the storm, with eyes as fiery as my wrath, stood by my side and whispered...
...passes,' replied the Shape, 'your happiness is gone; only one little motion and he shall not pass. Listen; I, the master of good and evil, promise you then a long and happy life...
...irretrievably lost that we appreciate its value and importance, and see our own folly in neglecting it. Judging the future by the past, the same will be the case, I fear, with many of us in regard to improving the opportunities offered to us by the College in shape of our Evening Readings. When the readings in Shakespeare were given last year, though at an hour very uncomfortable to many of us, the interest was strong, and the room was crowded almost to suffocation; but now a course of readings in the same author, by the same professor, while highly...
...unlike that prevalent in England during the earlier years of the Commonwealth. "Prayer-meetings," says the Nassau Lit, "are no longer dull, but fervid." The influence of religion is felt in the "recitation-room, where "spiritual interest .... transforms duty into pleasure." It is felt in the shape of "increased earnestness in base-ball matters," in the gymnasium," and in the training requisite for various athletic sports. Drinking has vanished from "spreads." Profanity, which is "not so much an amusement as a habit," has been abandoned. "Joy beams from many a face," while on the countenances of the few unconverted sits...
...gaze with wondering eyes upon us, we appear in a dress by no means appropriate to the occasion. No blessing was ever conferred upon man equal to that which prescribed the form of dress which he should wear at evening. A morning coat can be of many a shape and many a shade, but when we meet at night we need have no thought of our dress, we must all be arrayed alike. To this blessing custom has added another in prescribing one unchangeable form of dress for college ceremonials, while we sacrilegious beings have rejected the goods the gods...