Word: field
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...whole field was now filled with murmurs and complaints, groans and lamentation...
...ruminating one evening, about a fortnight ago, on Addison's portrayal of the discontent of man, I insensibly fell asleep. Suddenly it seemed that the Faculty had issued a proclamation that all in the University should bring their griefs and calamities and throw them down in one heap. Holmes Field was chosen for the purpose. I took my stand in the centre, and saw with a great deal of pleasure the whole College marching, one after another, and laying down their several loads. There was a certain lady, of thin, airy shape, who seemed to have the management...
...threw down his luggage, which, on examination, I found to be his flabby chum. There were numbers of black eyes and sore heads; and, strange to relate, those who had thrown these down had Phi. B. K. clearly stamped on their features. Of the multitude that crowded into the field there were scores of Annex members, Professors, Base-ballists, Oarsmen, and many others whom I had never even suspected of envy...
...changes in afflictions having been made, the multitude slowly left the field, reading the notices which had been given out to them. On these were written...
...yells of applause. This seeming derision was too much for the hot blood of the Eastern Despot, - he sailed for the rabble. . . . The pieces of pigtail and silk trousers which hang as trophies in rooms of Seniors and Juniors might suggest his appearance as he came on the field...