Word: longering
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...have before acted in this way should remember that many ladies on their way home from church are kept waiting outside, while the gentlemen who accompany them are getting the mail; that the climate of New England at this time of year is a severe one; and that the longer a lady has to stand exposed to the east-wind after coming out of a heated church, the more likely she is to catch cold. Let us hope that courtesy will hereafter get the better of impatience...
...have realized every improvement which he advocates. The smaller colleges that still crawl in the old rut of making every man swallow the same dose may find it to their advantage to consider this article carefully. The time has come when the old ideas of education are no longer applicable, and the sooner they are laid aside the better. The self-styled "Universities" which are so numerous in this country have no right to their title until the new systems are introduced. At present they are not in advance of many of the schools of other countries...
...secret dell unfolds the parchment of silent admiration, the lonely dale mourns reverie to the ear of the passer-by, the rugged brink crowns the pyramid of sublimity, and the babbling brook murmurs a tender welcome to the musings of genius. The place of toil is deserted. No longer the busy bell chimes our summons, but with full hearts and nature's silent language, we will extinguish the illusive expression of felicity, and nourish the little spark of true bliss until it melts every heart into ecstasy...
...year it lay before the front door of the old farm-house; but it was destined to be wiped by more ambitious feet than those of country callers, and now, for the last time, it had seen the lilacs bloom in the dooryard, and it was no longer to serve the old house-dog for a comfortable lounge. It was to know the feet that frequent a college entry. The sights and sounds of its new experience had little in common with those of its first fair year, although, perhaps, the unsteady steps that were wont to cross it late...
...expiration of his term of office, and he has been succeeded by a man who seems to be much better qualified for the place. Viands like to those that are now prepared in Memorial Hall kitchen were never before seen in Commons, and the tables - the students no longer - fairly groan under them. So sumptuous was the food for the first few days that the President was obliged to curtail the bill-of-fare for sanitary reasons. If the Association continues as it has begun, - and the directors should see to it that it does, - a dissolution of the Commons...