Word: ye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye!" cried the Senate's portly Sergeant at Arms Chesley W. Jurney. "All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment, while the Senate of the United States is sitting for the trial of the articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives against Halsted L. Ritter, United States district judge for the southern district of Florida...
Starting training early for the fox-hunting season, fifty foreseeing Freshmen shattered century-old traditions of "Ye College Yard," Harvard Yard, and whatever it may have been in the meanwhile, by staging a drag-hunt there last night with hounds from the Norfolk Hunt Club...
...great lovers of history met with difficulty. Romeo, who wooed so swiftly, found death so soon. Tristan, who wooed unwisely, found death unmerciful. Juliet could not live without Romeo, and Isolde swooned upon the corpse of Tristan and breathed her last. And Launcelot swooned (Ye Gods, how they swooned!) when Guinevere was placed in her grave, and he sickened and pined away...
...true, I hear, that our knowledge is not increased by such deductions for I must already know that Hypatia is a mortal woman before I can intuit the first proposition: "All women are mortal." But, ye faithless ones, must mere logic displace the happy truth that all genius lives forever in the sentiments and ideas it inspires? And was not Hypatia a genius? Was she not beautiful? And modest? And intelligent? And was she not done to death in oyster shells? Holy fishes, is this not enough for immortality? Bless my soul, I should like to teach those girls...
...seems to have found expression in the form of destruction to property. The breaking of windows headed the list, while damage to pumps was indulged in long before "Med Fac" days. In 1660 numerous exploits resulted in the following statement of the Overseers: ". . . where any damage is done to ye Edifice of the Colledge (excepting by the inevitable providence of God) to any vacant Chamber of Study, the Colledge fences about the Yard, pump, or clocks, etc: the same shall be made good again by all Students resident in the Colledge at the Time when such dammages shall be done...