Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Just before Gladstone entered Eton, in 1821, the Etonian, edited by Winthrop Mackworth Praed, had run its short, brilliant career; and Gladstone, though a Lower Boy, got acquainted with some of the contributors to that periodical, who used to come and breakfast with his brother Thomas. Among these were some who had acquired a real renown through their writings, and as Gladstone rose to the higher forms, the purpose of founding a magazine naturally suggested itself to him as one of the only methods that lay open to him for achieving scholastic distinction...
...debate was such a success that it was considered a matter of general interest. The poetry of the Magazine is of a decidedly superior tone. An excellent parody of Chaucer runs through several numbers. The Oxford poet, however, seems to delight as much in French forms as his American brother...
...past week. The first thing that strikes the reviewer is the great merit of the articles and editorials. Is it to be inferred from this that the English student requires a higher order of literature from his college paper than that which is demanded by his American brother-student? The facts seem to justify this assumption. Of course it must be taken into consideration that a part of this paper is written by graduates and for graduates. But still the fact remains that it is primarily a students' paper, written for the undergraduates. The liberal quotations of Greek and Latin...
...Total Abstinence Society intend requesting Mr. Samuel Longfellow, brother of the poet, and General John L. Swift, deputy collector of Boston, to present addresses at Harvard. When Wendell Phillips was asked, he declared his willingness to speak, saying that when he was in college certain students attempted to start a similar society, but, since at that time he did not feel the same interest in the cause which he now does, he neglected to aid them. For this reason he felt as if he owed a debt which could only be repaid by helping as much as possible the present...
...Brother Lampy, stop your crying...