Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter, and we should urge all freshmen who have had any practice in singing, and who care to give the time to it, to present themselves to-day at the trial. When the spring comes, and men begin to loaf on the grass in the yard after dinner on warm evenings, it will be a very pleasant thing for the freshmen to have as a nucleus, a knot of fellows who have spent time enough in practice to be able to carry the parts in college songs...
...alas for the confidence which we so blindly placed in the power and wisdom of that mighty today, the Board of Directors, by whose will, dry crusts of bread can be turned into a savory pudding, and the debris of fricasseed chicken into a warm and nourishing hash. Instead of the quail on toast or tenderloin steaks for which we had starved ourselves for several days, we were regaled with a strange compound called beef pie, a cousin German of our old enemy beef stew, and the entirely novel expedient of fried mush...
...without anything to make them clergymen but a black coat and white tie. And the bishops and deans come with women tucked under their arm; and they can't enter church but a fine powdered man runs first with a cushion for them to sit on and a warm sheepskin to keep their feet from the stones...
...nine. And from these, it is said, in after ages came the nine muses. Now the nine found great favor in the eyes of all the people and their concerts, which were often called balls, were widely attended. Rich and poor, high and low, gathered upon the fields on warm sunny afternoons after four o'clock, (for at this hour the shops were closed by the order of the much loved King), and watched the nine disporting upon the turf, which, because of its richness, was surnamed the Diamond...
...appeals, and this we could not do. To get one's name into print is certainly a praiseworthy desire, but we cannot undertake to fulfill all praiseworthy desires, -this one in particular. We would call the attention of the "Four" to the fact that they will undoubtedly receive a warm welcome at the office, where their thirst for knowledge can easily be gratified...