Word: whirling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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People who come to Cambridge in June for the most part want to see the University, and not a mad whirl of muslin, and ice-cream, and ivy-orations. The older people would welcome the change, and shall we say that girls would sicken of us in three short days...
...earnest plea for this philosophy of the inner, the spirit world. "For it is the Mystics," he says, "who tell us of our deeper, truer, diviner natures, and reveal to us the inner springs of life which are the sources of our power. They lift us out of the whirl of material madness and fix our thoughts and hopes on the things that are above...