Word: vow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...assured that this reparation for this "heartrending" episode has already caused the officers and members of our orchestral club to break the vow which they had made never to accept another invitation to play in Wellesley. Now they are in that frame of mind that they can conceive of no more ideal ending to this intercollegiate misunderstanding than an invitation to play in Wellesley in the spring, when balmy moonlight nights enhance the already great charms of that delightful spot...
...severest penalties were inflicted on any nun who broke her vow to Vesta. The reverence which even the early Christians felt for this order is shown by the fact that when the Temple of the goddess was confiscated, none of the ornaments or decorations were injured...
...ungently, upon the ruin. From that gaping window Elizabeth of England looked out many a time; that octagon tower and the dungeons beneath it could tell strange tales, if they chose; kings and princes have supped and made merry in those halls, and many a tender vow has been plighted in the moonlight on that great stone promenade. But the crimson glory which shines, as their glory shone, is fading already, as their glory faded. The bridge is all ablaze with red light, and the air is full of hissing rockets and golden rain. But the light...
...band of sophomores in Cornell university the other night succeeded in capturing a banquet which the freshmen had procured for themselves. The latter vow terrible vengeance...
...slashed each other." All these cases are "written up," with little or no foundation in fact. Those who know anything about the college take these accounts for the little that they are worth, but the mass of people read these bloody tales with avidity and shuddering horror, and vow never to send their sons to such a school of iniquity as Harvard. How utterly absurd all this is! Yet the raving maniacs who write all this stuff are allowed to roam about at will to deliberately falsify, and to bring great and undeserved discredit on the fair name...