Word: extant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this volume seems to us the best exponent of Harvard-life extant. The "Rebelliad," although very witty, is now antiquated; and, besides, it is often coarse. "Fair Harvard," which so delights a sub, a graduate cannot endure. Loring's "Two College Friends" is a more truthful picture of Harvard. But this volume of verse, in our opinion, gives a still better insight into College life, and is a better representative of Harvard feeling. We know of no work which will serve so well to remind a student of his College days when away, or which will give his friends...
...here it is noticeable that two widely varying accounts of his life are extant, - one by Geoffrey Monmouth, a writer of the first half of the twelfth century, which was translated from a Welsh original, written by Walter Mapes, Archdeacon of Oxford; and the other by Sir Thomas Malory, printed by Caxton...
...glad that this [Athletic] association is prospering throughout the East, and hope it may displace the mania for rowing and boat-racing extant there. We hope that the stubborn fact that a very large number of those who rowed in the renowned boat-clubs of England have been brought to untimely graves by heart-disease, resulting from too sudden and violent exertion, may yet have its just weight as to this portion of American physical education...