Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hold on, a thought has just struck me, that what you wanted to know was what I had learned from my books. Oh well, if I were writing to any College fellow I would laugh at him for asking such an absurd question, and tell him that he ought to know that I never studied; that to study was bad form; and as for going to recitations, why, I never go. But as this letter is to you, and is withal a frank confession, I will acknowledge studying a little now and then when I think no one will...
...they thought that their heads were quite level...
...most gentlemanly men that ever played on our eleven. You see Jack ran at Blazes when Blazes did not have the ball, and kicked his shins so as to distract his attention, and give our man, Drinkoff, a chance to make a touch-down; and, by Jove! I really thought for a minute that Blazes was going to hit him, as he probably would have done if somebody had not pulled him off; and the Harvard men would have backed...
...sprang upon me and threw me to the ground. If I had not heard a voice near at hand at that very moment, I might have been devoured. It was a man's voice; and, so great was my presence of mind, even in these adverse circumstances, that I thought how decollete I must look, for the creature had sadly torn my garments and had split open one of my boots. I tried in vain to rise...
Towards evening I awoke, and with returning consciousness came the thought of Amy and what had become of her. I rushed downstairs, and, for a moment, felt an infinite relief at seeing her on the piazza, but when she cast a look of unspeakable contempt upon me, and walked away, my sense of relief gave way to that of despair. I knew not what to make of it, and when in the evening she went off with the Yale man, my feelings were the quintessence of wretchedness. That night I hardly slept a wink, and my chum declared afterward that...