Word: existing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There are two reasons why this notion should exist, the first of which arises, through no fault of the students themselves, from a liking in other persons for contrast. This love of contrast is shown in the disposition which makes ministers' sons and deacons' daughters stand as types of youthful waywardness; while, in fact, these persons form the most unassuming portion of creation. So with the name of student, - many would be glad to make it synonymous with its antipodes...
...genuine and the spurious article; others there are who, from their moral status, seem incapable of appreciating anything genuine, who derive their intellectual nourishment almost exclusively from trashy literature. Among these our writer, provided his production gains publicity, is welcome. But as this uncultivated class is not supposed to exist in the "headquarters" of refinement and intelligence, these remarks apply only in part to those whose present literary efforts are confined to our college journals. Upon the hypothesis, then, that Harvard men are shrewd enough to distinguish a good joke from a bad one, and too refined to relish vulgarity...
...amicable relations which exist between the Advocate and the Magenta sorely annoy our belligerent friends at Yale. Besides the remorseful pangs which vice ever experiences in the presence of virtue, it must be extremely aggravating to find in all the exchanges, as they straggle in, after a notice of the Magenta, some such remark as "Yale papers please copy"; or, "Courant and Record, here is an example which you will do well to follow." The Courant is especially vexed, and proposes to wait with Christian calmness for the hair-pulling which cannot be avoided after our second number. It also...
...deficient in the crowning quality of the novelist, - ability to throw a dramatic interest over all the characters, and make the reader feel that he is learning the story of real men and women. We know that the characters of "Middlemarch" are natural, that they might exist, but we think of them merely as the clever creations of George Eliot, - as belonging to fiction, and not to history. Yet we can conscientiously say that the book fulfils the condition which stamps it as an original work, - it deserves to be pondered as well as read...