Word: boyhood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Echo!! That such accusations against such a man could not have been brought save by a candidate either for toga asyli or for the toga virilis, there can be no doubt. Meanwhile, it is a disgrace to the College to have the trashy effusions of such unripe boyhood as the above extract trumpeted abroad as the "representative" opinion of Harvard students...
...always heard that in the last few moments of a person's life, all the actions, good and bad, of his career rush to his memory. But with me it was not so. I tried to look back over my past life, to recall my boyhood, my college days, and the few preceding years; but instead of that I found myself attempting some jingling nurseryrhyme, and was vexed because there was one note which I could not catch. I thought of the axe, and tried to imagine the blood spurting out over it. But I discovered that I was endeavoring...
This was discovered, however, to be a poem which the Crimson had rejected, and the President thought that home talent had better be encouraged in future. He therefore called upon Dr. Oliver Wendell H-lm-s for one of the poems of his boyhood. The Doctor gave