Word: flourishes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said of the best of us all? . . . The Student and the Athenoeum pursue their straight-forward ways, and represent public opinion at Amherst and Williams very creditably. . . . We learn from the Tablet that Trinity is to have a new paper, the Ivy, which will probably be green and flourish. The Niagara Index is on the war path, and scalps the 'Varsity and the Record this time. The bright, chatty, school-girl air of Lasell Leaves is very pleasing, and puts reader and editor on a friendly footing at once. But we would not imply that this favorite paper is deficient...
...press," and it is but seldom that an iconoclastic exchange editor dares to make the mildest criticism on them. When he does, they don't receive it with any more humility than any of the less pretentious papers would. For instance, the University Magazine said that poetry did not flourish at Princeton. It certainly does n't. The Princeton papers scarcely ever have any verses at all, and when they do they are very bad. The Nassau Lit. feels it necessary to make some reply, and does it by saying that there is a great deal of poetry, better than...