Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fence is a disappointment, as it cannot be "sot on" without painfully lacerating results...
...year is a peculiar one, and she had thus some reason to expect from Harvard that courtesy which has now been shown in accepting her challenge. She should remember, however, that only this year is she thus situated, and that only for this year is her challenge accepted. Harvard cannot be expected to row two races every year; and the wisdom of excluding all other colleges from the race with Yale has been too well shown to be questioned; and from the interest in that race all other races, such as this one with Columbia, will seriously detract. Too much...
...article on "Radicalism in College" which represents by itself the literary talent of Williams, in the last Athenoeum, is sensible and thoughtful. In a young man radicalism is indeed an essential quality. It is only the exaggeration of enthusiasm, and at our age enthusiasm cannot be too much exaggerated, at least at Harvard, where it is certainly not a drug in the market, whatever may be the case at Williams...
...that a banquet lately given at Brunswick was enlivened by "the wit of Charles Dudley Warner, and the speeches of other distinguished men." There is sarcasm somewhere, but whether it is that Mr. Warner's remarks do not deserve to be called "a speech," or that the other gentlemen cannot be called witty, - this is a question we shall not attempt to solve...
...other exchanges, and seems to be an interesting and highly creditable publication. Our high opinion of its merits, however, may be owing to our having taken immediately before it a large dose of other college papers. The prize oration on Carlyle is certainly original and thoughtful, though we cannot commend its style. The editors of the Lit. should be careful about quotations. Horace and Coleridge both suffer in this number...