Word: friends
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Whereas, Almighty God has taken from us Herbert George Dow, our beloved friend and classmate...
...benches to listen, and imagine myself in Italy hearing a lover serenade his lady. Once indeed, on a June morning, when the birds twittered and Nicholas sang so that I forgot my annual awaiting me, I followed him up and down, until, meeting a severely critical friend, I basely shielded myself by asserting that I was searching for an officer to arrest the nuisance. Nevertheless I doubted that day if Capoul ever sang better...
...feeling in the same condition as to my examinations, I determined to go into Boston to see the services. I had a vague impression, arising perhaps from my experience of St. Patrick's Day, that something green would be appropriate. Accordingly, I borrowed a green necktie from a Freshman friend next door, and set forth. Arriving at my destination, I succeeded in forcing a way through an immense crowd of the faithful with what clothing a reasonable man would expect to have left at such a time. Once in, I saw around me all sorts and conditions of people. There...
...took the seat left vacant by a stout man who had been ejected for loudly disputing a friend who asserted that Rome was in Egypt. Here I was addressed by a person who began a voluntary monologue upon the evils of Catholicism. "Beginning," he said, "with Asia, and spreading through England, Italy, and its islands, the bigotry of the Catholic church came over to - " His geography failing him, I suggested Samoa. Unhappy venture! He began with Samoa, and opened a controversy upon the question of our country's buying it. As he turned his head, however, at the sound...
...students; and we had always supposed that the instructors not only recognized this, but even took a just pride in it, considering a crowded section a tribute to their method of handling the subject. It was, therefore, with great surprise, to say the least, that we heard from a friend of an instructor in a deservedly popular elective who announced his intention of making the course as difficult as possible, and of giving a hard examination-paper "for the purpose of thinning the elective." That this intention has been carried into effect those will certify who were tortured...