Word: anti-climaxed
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...game on Saturday was as complete an anti-climax to the work of the eleven against the Chicago Athletic Club, as one could very well imagine. To be sure the game was won, but when one reviews in his mind the general drift of the play, he finds it hard to explain why Amherst did not keep on scoring and win the game. The only possible reason that such did not happen was owing to Harvard's better endurance and the individual work of a few men. Amherst's defensive work was stronger than Harvard's, their aggressive play...
...priggish but really joke-loving friend, and the fellow who indulges in a summer flirtation, unconscious of its serious results - are dyed-in-the-wool Harvard men, and the bits of description are quite cleverly done. The whole thing is true to the life here at Cambridge and the anti-climax is happy. It is perhaps the best thing its author has done this year...
...seniors would sing it, but the other classes and the graduates would rise and join in. This would make a chorus of a thousand voices As anyone knows who attended the under-graduate exercises at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary in 1886, the result would be no anti-climax. It would be a revelation of the power that lies in one college song, when it is given as it should be, to stir one's pulses...
...last number, "Where Prophecy Failed," is a story not marked by any particular brilliancy or beauty. Among the "Items" is a neat little anti-climax called "Lines to My Lady...
...fitting then, as we have said above, that Graduates' Day should end our celebration, and the greatest zest and energy will mark to-day. There is no anti-climax. The Law School has done her share, the Undergraduates on Saturday showed themselves worthy of the name of men; yesterday all joined in obedience to their religious instinct, but to-day we are to see a feeling of brotherhood and cordiality rule supreme throughout the Harvard domain. Hearty hand-shaking on every side, memories that have slept during many years of work and thought, will be brought once more vividly before...