Word: fain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...when I fain would write, I somehow shrink...
Swept by, and fain would tarry for a while...
Upon that scroll with iron style I fain...
...cannot blame the College for this; at least we do not intend to, for we would fain fancy the appropriation as old as Class Day itself, and that while the classes have grown, and the expenses grown as well, the sum originally given has been maintained, and no increase made, merely from oversight, or perhaps it has never been asked for. Possibly the present Senior class will enjoy their Class Day the more from understanding their share in the transformation that ensues a day or two before Class Day, and understand why there are "necessary Class-Day expenses...
...Would fain be hight my faithful land-ladye...