Word: dealings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...another College year. No matter how little any of us think of the past eight months, we all feel how little has been accomplished of what, according to our plans and wishes, was to be done. How many pleasant fellows there are that we intended to see a good deal of, that we have met but once or twice; how many books, which we have been told we must read, have laid collecting dust on our tables and fines in the library,-if we have even gone so far as to take them out; how many articles that were...
...first fact about college poetry which strikes one is that there is a great deal too much of it. The maxim "Write nothing in verse that can be written in prose" is entirely disregarded, or rather inverted. The would-be poet, thinking that passable poetry is to be preferred to good prose, expends his energies in putting his thoughts into verse, with more or less regard for metre, forgetting that really good prose is seldom written, and that poetry of a certain stamp is always forthcoming, be the occasion a golden wedding in the country, a military dinner in town...
...most prominent literary societies was greatly amused the other evening at hearing one of its shining lights assert, in debate upon the Modoc war, that the only way for our government to deal with the wary red man was to pursue a similar course to that adopted by William Tell in his Treatment of the Pennsylvania Indians. Somewhat later, a member accused the president of the society of having abrogated all the authority in the matter. But our Biblical editor got right up and came away when the orator began to talk about the guiding spirit of faith which supported...
Whatever my profession in life, the individuals who shall be my patrons, the facts with which I shall deal, will be the people and facts of the present age. What preparation will better fit me to meet the practical demands of to-day than a seven years' study of the politics, literature, and society of ancient foreign and half-civilized nations...
...Queen." Several new songs were introduced, which were very acceptably rendered by Mr. Szemelenyi and Mr. Devens. The "hit" of the evening, however, was made by Mr. Thomas, whose Seneschal was as good a piece of amateur burlesque acting as we have ever seen. Mr. MacMillan made a great deal out of the Baron, and the ladies were lovely. On Thursday night the performance commenced with "The Follies of a Night," which was well acted and interesting. In conclusion came "Your Life's in Danger," which we must regard as the greatest success of the week. Messrs. Clark, Bowditch...