Word: relishes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...cool, fresh, fragrant breaths of a summer morning drifting through the open window are most delightfully mingled with our dreams. Vainly will others extol to us the virtues of great draughts of the freshest, clearest hours of the day; these we, too, taste and delicately enjoy with a relish that the votaries of, even anticipating the monarch and definer of the day, cannot appreciate or imagine...
...mind of a friend who had strange, unaccountable ways with him, - a habit of starting to recitations without his hat, of sitting up all night and sleeping during the day, of experimenting how long it would be before an exclusive diet of crackers and milk would make him relish anything else, and last, but not least, of occasionally going to sleep by the wayside. It was mildly hinted that a connection with an institution in the neighboring town of Somerville would be more beneficial than a course at college. I am glad to say that he is now an altered...
...exist in the "headquarters" of refinement and intelligence, these remarks apply only in part to those whose present literary efforts are confined to our college journals. Upon the hypothesis, then, that Harvard men are shrewd enough to distinguish a good joke from a bad one, and too refined to relish vulgarity, the conclusion is this, that he cannot be a popular writer who, for the sake of a joke, oversteps the bounds of good taste...