Word: brights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Drummond, the bright young Scotchman who has been making a visit to some of the leading American colleges, says that to him their most remarkable feature is "their Christian tone.' The professor probably has not dropped around when the Harvard sophomores were hazing the freshmen, or the boys of Cornell having a cane rush, or Yale trampling Princeton's football team in the mud.- Boston Post...
...slight casualities, except in a single instance; they saw a dash and courage and enthusiasm that made one think better of the mortal part of human nature; and in the end a group of eager, flushed, panting young men, exhausted somewhat, of course, with such tremendous physical effort, but bright of eye, clear of voice, and as fine to look upon, in spite of awkward garb, as any heroic figures of triumphant Greek athletes...
...only time a student can use the reference books in the library is in the morning, when his hours are generally taken up by recitatations, and in the afternoons when either laboratory work or the thousand and one things a person finds it more pleasant to do on a bright fall afternoon than pouring over a lot of musty books, prevents him from using the library as much as he ought, and as much as he would like to do. Pangs of regret are constantly shooting up in men who use the library but little, and it is in vain...
...points called up-a very rare thing, by the way, in student essays. "Mr. Hutton as a Critic" is too pedantic, and what good thoughts it contains are almost hidden by the insufficiency of the style. Some lines "To the Composite Photograph of the November Century" are very bright and introduce some neat plays on words. "La Corrida de Los Toros," a story of a bull-fight in South American, is well told and ends in quite dramatic fashion. It can hardly boast of much originality, however. "A Backward Glance" is very amusing. "Roses and Cypress" is a sympathetically told...
...remarkable for the high standard and general excellence of its pieces. Perhaps the most praiseworthy are "Count Tolstoi and My Confession," and a beautifully expressed poem, of much greater length than the average literary poem. As a whole, the pieces show more thought than usual and predict a bright year in our literary life...