Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...happy couple were made the recipients of many congratulations, and started on their wedding-tour, followed by the best wishes of all present. The affair is conceded on all sides to be the most brilliant of the season...
...Class Supper of the Sophomores took place at the Parker House on Friday, the 21st ult. All the arrangements of the committee seemed perfect. The banquet was spread in the room of mirrors, and nothing could be more brilliant or suggestive of good cheer than the scene presented as the company took their seats. The committee had provided for what they considered an extraordinary number of plates; but fifteen or twenty more names having been handed in at the last moment, it became unfortunately necessary to provide for them in an adjoining room. These, however, later in the evening, were...
...other reason than that they are both Englishmen, - a sufficient ground, no doubt, in The Student's eyes. We are sorry to see the matter so indisputably settled. How have our idols fallen! Before reading The Student, we had always regarded Dickens as quite a good author, - brilliant, interesting, and instructive. But no, it can't be so; for "Dickens's life was spent chiefly to amuse idle people; albeit, we must acknowledge that incidentally he was useful, once in a while, by exposing social defects and vices." Poor Dickens! Some people are foolish enough to look back with pleasure...
...college the most careful and painstaking students receive the highest percentage of marks; but they are not brilliant men, nor do their fellows always admit that they are the best scholars. Thus, certain affable, graceful, and politic men, able in popular amusements, are admitted into clubs and societies to the exclusion of others who, when weighed by real merit, would be more entitled to the privilege and honor. There is far too much of this politic seeking for popularity in college; the methods are many, and the results various. Popularity which is sought after and courted is a dangerous thing...
...Brilliant indeed was the appearance of Joaquin Miller (a truly popular poet) in the world of literature. At first, we, in the benighted East, saw the new-born poet only through a cloud of shapeless rumors and perverted facts; but at length the mist cleared away, and disclosed the figure of a tall man, wearing upon his head a great slouched hat, and thrown across his shoulders a United States army blanket, fiercely stroking his mustaches, and pointing with a gleaming knife at an open volume of poems. This was Joaquin Miller. "I give you my honor, sir, that...