Word: staying
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...serious societies may be dismissed with a word. They are wretched, dead affairs, which are only held together by shingles and seals. If you join one, you will attend a meeting or two, find it stupid, and afterwards stay away. The treasurer will send you a bill or two, which you will forget to pay. Your name will be posted, but nobody will read it. And in the end you will resign, having gained no advantage except a certificate of membership. The truth is that French clubs and German clubs and chess clubs have no real reason for existence...
...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...
Striving the current warm and swift to stay...
...further diminished the Association will be unable to go on after the holidays. To ascertain what is the feeling among the students on this question, a book will this week be placed at the Bursar's office, which men who are in the Association and who intend to stay in it are requested to sign; men who now board outside willing to come into the Hall under a new management are requested to sign this book. If the number of signatures amounts to three hundred and fifty, - about the number now at the Hall, - the Association will go on, otherwise...
Forever by Ilyssus stay...