Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...side, and those of the State on the other, was presented to the company by the ladies of Cambridge. The members of the Corps were all taken from the senior and junior classes. Its armory was in the top story of Hollis for many years, till it was thought best to move it to University. Although one of the finest and best drilled companies in the State, the only service it ever performed was practicing on exhibition days, and when the peace of 1815 was declared, firing a salute. In 1825 it was reorganized for the second time. How long...
...students repeated from memory the sermons he had heard during the day, a practice no doubt pleasing to its victim, and his fellow sufferers. The President was required to officiate, and in his absence one of the tutors. From numerous traditions it would seem as though the tutor especially thought they were working by the day, and not by the job. Music by the singing club was furnished only on Sundays. Within the last thirty years, even, students have been compelled to go to Chapel by star-light, and this not in the evening either. Although none too much blessed...
...twinkling he was gone. I awoke and found myself wondering if such Lotos-Eaters were not more common than I had thought...
...evening, an essay of several pages length, and, on going to bed, repeating it word for word, from beginning to end. De Quincey immortalized himself by his wonderful visions. There is that remarkable work of Cicero's on the vision of Scipio, a work that I have often thought must have suggested to Richter the idea embodied in his well-known Dream of The Universe. Bunyan is continually saying, "Now I saw in my dream." And thus a thousand and one instances might be cited, in which, merely as a flight of the imagination, or to serve a more practical...
...three years before his entrance to college, it is true, the boy feels some dim forebodings of trouble ahead; but a decisive step to meet it is seldom taken. Human nature is weak, and the issue is generally avoided, while the anxious son consoles himself with the thought that years may bring wisdom to the dear parents...