Word: went
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ambitious Seniors went to Lake Whitney to skate; for a while they succeeded bravely; but, skating too near the water's edge, they tumbled in. A small boy and his sister happening that way rescued them. All the parties are doing as well as could be expected...
...Steward, and he, to demonstrate the unreasonableness of these complaints, repeatedly took the Board through the lower part of the Hall and explained its workings. This was interesting to the Directors, to be sure, but they knew no more when they came out than they did when they went in. Meanwhile members were rapidly leaving the Hall, and the board was growing poorer. Resolutions were then introduced requesting the removal of Mr. Farmer, on the ground that the students were leaving the Hall. The Directors were unanimous in the opinion that the desertion was caused by Mr. Farmer's incapacity...
...brought her skate and asked her could I put it on. Half assenting, she turned to her friend, who looked so haughty and reserved that the girl, with a checked look again coming over her face, only said, with thanks, that she would not trouble me. So I went away, and sat down on the edge of the platform...
They called their daughters, and the laughing girls took off their skates; and presently the party went out through the big doors which were being opened to let in the cold air. The stout man walked between the girls, making them both laugh, and laughing himself, a great, honest laugh; the elder man picked his way carefully along over the ice behind them...
...only when he alights from his carriage to fall into the arms of those goddesses, his sisters. Such a welcome! Why, there will have been nothing like it since Orpheus was torn to pieces by those Thracian ladies, long ago. You shall hear him say at dinner that he went to the punch just to look on. On the same evening he will tell the boys that he was full of Bacchus; and then he will wake the midnight echoes of the quiet old town, to show them "how we men do it at the University." But don't imagine...