Word: far
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...witchery of far-off things...
...selections from Byron and Shelley. There are also Musings on Aristotle, and on Campbell's poetry; also, there is an article entitled "A Summer Reverie," consisting of judicious clippings from Wordsworth. After this, it is needless to say that native genius is not called much into requisition, as far as poetry goes...
...depicting the fair forms of his fellow-collegians he is unrestrained by any vulgar laws of proportion. After all, why should not a Yale man, if he likes, have a head three times as long as his body, or a leg about the size of his little finger? Far be it from us to object, although we must confess that to our uneducated mind an ordinary man is a more pleasing object than a being who, in addition to the pleasing peculiarities above-mentioned, has a parallelogram for a body, a square for a head, straight lines for limbs...
...much of his success in life. He was one of the most, but not the most brilliant writer in his class; and his extreme fondness for oratory foreshadowed to some extent his future career. Yet, on the whole, there are many men in college to-day whose success, as far as one can tell, is far more assured than was Sumner's during his college life...
...ball was punted out, and the Columbia men made an attempt to carry it down the field, but were stopped by our half-tends, and soon Holmes made a fine rush, and got a touch-down. Out came the ball, and after a lively scrimmage, the best one thus far, Cushing, '79, got the ball behind the line, and obtained a goal from a place-kick. We had now got two goals and five touch-downs within fifteen minutes...