Word: tears
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sigh, a rising tear, - that...
...Tablet tells us that a Magic Lantern has recently been presented to Trinity College. Surely this announcement will strike a tender chord in the soul of each of our readers; many, perchance, will be unable to restrain a silent tear when they recall the delights of happy childhood's hours. Ah! would that some kind benefactor of our College might be as generous to us! Perhaps such innocent pleasures would wean us away from the gross immorality and vice which prevail among us! But stay! The Tablet further says; "Its chief value does not consist in its ordinary...
...rising tear? - as if it mattered...
...speaking of class suppers the Courant gives its readers this sage advice: "If you must go on a 'tear,' do it when the blue leads the crimson. If she does n't, then do it because she failed to do it. Drown your grief, if you can't celebrate a victory." We sincerely hope that the Yale men will have a chance to "drown their grief." The usual cut is poorly enough drawn, and the joke beneath it is still worse. It may be intelligible to the Yale mind, but we are obliged to confess that the point...
...think the Advocate's suggestion to change the Ivy Oration to a Tree Oration should meet the approbation of the Class. When it was discovered that the ivy planted near the Library served only as a bait to the white ants, ruthless hands were ready to tear down the offending vine, and no one seemed to mind the sacrilege. It would be very foolish now to revive ivy planting, -a custom which has nothing whatever in its favor. The exercises at the Tree, however, need additional attractions, and if we can have a bright oration at that time, - and there...