Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...could see the charming city Chelsea below us, and in the distance the blue air of Boston. The great questions to be solved were these : Do the blue waves lick the ocean? Is Chelsea built on terraces formed by fish bones from Tafts or by the sea? We thought so. After this solution the instructor was all broke up, and said he wanted a solution with a little glacier in his; but Chelsea being a temperance town it was not to be considered. Finally we decided that each man should choose a hill, go up, take a nap, and afterwards...
...reader, not one man had a dream (I cannot lie, for one). We lunched on marron mashe and green fruit, served, expressly for the occasion, from the Brunswick. While lunching, the great question of debate was whether we should keep on walking to Malden or return to Chelsea. Some thought Malden, some Chelsea, nearer. I was sent as a committee of one to find out which was right...
...back I was harrowed with the thought that if I had less affected I could have effected more. It's a cold day when I go there again. "All those who wish to take a trip to Chelsea to-morrow can do so, by taking the boat which leaves Rose Wharf, South Boston...
...address. Paste them in the fly-leaf of your Rig-Veda, or some other book in constant use, so that, at any moment you will be able to find the proper word. [And here it should be remarked that, granted the word, you have the poem; for thought (that is, a concept) is entirely out of place in a work of the imagination.] There are other tables containing heroine's names, with appropriate rhymes; the list might be indefinitely extended: Mary, airy, fairy; Laura, saw her, adore her: Lucy, truce he, boozy; and so on, ad infinitum. It will also...
...irresistible to the Freshman. He looks upon Mr. Sever with no less awe and affection than on the Registrar himself. He considers it a privilege to buy books at a store sanctioned by the Faculty of his dear College, and pays for his Chauvenet and Horace with no thought or wish that there might be better bargains. If not before the end of his first year, then surely at the beginning of the second, he awakes to the knowledge that he is paying exorbitant prices. He looks around for a competitor to Mr. Sever. Finding none, he has recourse...