Word: moment
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...undergraduates, are the children who sport with merry gambols on the green. And that thing, once frail but now a huge monster which may at any moment devour us all, is the hour-examination system. We all remember the first adoption of this system; how innocent the idea seemed when first presented to us, with what care it was nursed into stronger life. Did we not honor and bow down before it, and look to it for unnumbered blessings? Then it was a small and tender thing, but now it has grown, - ye gods, how it has grown! The plan...
...quickly, and, if be is not a hardened sinner, his self-complacency is somewhat disturbed. In one of my divisions there is a man wonderfully deliberate and methodical. He is blessed with great length of limb, so that it takes him some time to stretch out. At the moment his right foot is over the bench he begins, and then (with his hands in his coat-tail pockets) he keeps on in a very measured and confident tone, pausing for breath between each word. He makes translating Latin at sight his specialty. We all know, too, the man who parades...
Suppose, again, I continued, while a sense of perfect comfort pervaded my whole being, that I were at this moment a husband instead of a chum. I should then be under the necessity of turning immediately homeward, or a little family disturbance might arise. But as it is, - and I caught myself nodding to my glass, - it makes no difference if I don't go home...
...brother. It is possible, too, that his room was fitted up from designs furnished by himself. But it is highly probable that, having heard that Eastlake furniture was the fashion, he employed somebody or other to get up his rooms regardless of expense, and that at this moment he is not able to tell half so much about his own furniture as you can. My old Smith's room was magnificently "gotten up" by a millionnaire upholsterer from New York, but as household art had not been invented at that time, it was full of gilding and bright color...
...following stirring accounts of warlike deeds is taken from the Trinity Tablet: "The word was given, and '79 and '80 met with terrible force. For a moment the well-known pluck of '79 withstood the shock, but in a second the overwhelming numbers of '80 [35 in the class] overcame the resistance, and decided the fate of the contest. '79 was pushed, but it was not to their shame. For hey showed great pluck in attempting to 'rush' a class just twice their own in size...