Word: oblivions
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...keenest enjoyment to be derived from the hours before noon is ordinarily a total oblivion of them. "Another folding of the arms to rest" is delicious, especially if there is a bell in the neighborhood to remind you of the prayer-bell, so that the delicate luxury of revenge may be added to that of slumber...
...which show marked ability, and handle their subjects with considerable skill; and are obliged to refuse them, because they are written upon matters which we cannot, as a college organ, publish. It is no small trial for an editor to be compelled to consign articles like these to the oblivion of the waste-basket, which he does with a sigh of regret that talent should be so misapplied, at the expense of his columns, so hungry for copy. The most favorite subject seems to be "Popular Men"; and these rather indefinite creatures are made the objects of sarcasm and raillery...
...like youth, in oblivion slip...
...making our students good writers, then why these severe complaints from those who are presumably qualified to make them? But there is even less to be said against the second charge, inasmuch, as far as can be seen, Harvard's policy toward oratory is to bundle it off to oblivion among the other "lost arts," with all possible speed. Unless the Boylston prizes, which we owe to a private individual and not to the College itself, be considered an exception, oratory has here no recognized existence whatever. Thus Mr. Adams is literally correct when he says on this point...
SHAKESPEARE.POETS have sung the praises of sleep as the restorer of strength to man's wearied frame, probably agreeing with Socrates, that a dreamless night is the pleasantest, and hence neglecting to celebrate the pleasures of sleep as well. These are not to be found in blank oblivion, nor in the incongruous, unreal, and half-recollected shadows of the hours of darkness, but in the hours of early morning. Then, like the light of the dawn going before the full radiance of the sun, the self-consciousness of each human mind precedes the full resumption of the sceptre over...