Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first nights of the year, and given "warning," and followed the spinning ball right among the ranks of the Sophomores, coming out victorious, though with torn clothes and covered with scratches. I remember he seemed to impart some of his fire to me, for a patriotic thrill passed through me as he told of the meeting held by Adams, Otis, Hancock, and others in little Holden just before the Revolution, or how, a few months later, the College was removed to Concord, and Continental soldiers slung their hammocks in old Massachusetts...