Word: sicken
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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People who come to Cambridge in June for the most part want to see the University, and not a mad whirl of muslin, and ice-cream, and ivy-orations. The older people would welcome the change, and shall we say that girls would sicken of us in three short days...
...seniors, appealing to them to fulfil well the responsibility of choice that rested upon them; to remember that only one type of life can survive, and that, the highest type of all life. Work, and that only, will end in becoming a torture; pleasure, and that only, will finally sicken; the study of men and the knowledge of God which it brings is the only thing fit to occupy a man's life...