Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty is just as alert as ever, and just as ready to punish offenders. Eighty-seven is evidently fully as spirited as the traditional sophomore, and eighty-eight is apparently fully as ready to stand up for its rights as the average freshman class. Can it be that the millennium is approaching, when the sophomore and freshman are to lie down together, like the oft-mentioned lion and lamb? During our own first two years in college we thought that day to be far distant. Can it be that it is so near while we are yet undergraduates...
...father had said, "Oh, dear, James promised me that he would give up writing poetry and go to work." What would our professor in English say to the suggestive simile made by one speaker on the same occasion, when the latter expressed the hope that in the future millennium the Greek letter societies would all lie down together, and Alpha Delta Phi should lead them...
...maintain their traditional custom of annually discussing the evils of compulsory attendance at chapel. A fervent faith can doubtless see in the dim future the final realization of all our hopes in this matter, and therefore those of us who blindly grope, and have almost despaired of any such millennium, should without doubt do their utmost for the final abolition of these evil regulations by means of continual protest and energetic petition. The thought that a distant posterity will profit by our exertions, can fill us with a melancholy satisfaction...