Word: department
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unwilling to depart...
...another turn, and I began to wonder why it was that I was able to think at all. Or was it that this small power of speculation still clung to the head, even when severed from the trunk; that the ghosts, as it were, of former senses, loath to depart, still hovered about me? And it diverted me that the faculty for punning should of all be the most tenacious. I felt a new ambition, - to retain my faculties as long as possible. I determined that by mere force of will I would prevent them from leaving...
That they did not depart from their usual character on this occasion was shown at the hearing in a manner which I think must have satisfied any unprejudiced listener. It was there demonstrated that the dinner was quiet; that little wine was used; that the party were, without exception, sober; and that their only offence against good order was the singing of college songs when on their way through Court and Cambridge Streets. In short, in no part of the evidence did anything appear which could in any degree discredit young men with the College authorities, or which need give...