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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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Perhaps, however, the story is chiefly valuable for affording us glimpses into Yale student life on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. From casual remarks, we gather that whist is a game which is not enjoyed there. Pillow fights are preferred. But even these grow monotonous to the high-spirited Freshmen, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

The heroine of this story and these two men, Freshman and Senior, meet while camping out in the Adirondacks. There is always, of course, more or less difficulty for the novelist to find a suitable time for his hero to declare his passion for his heroine. Hughes, however, did a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

IT has been remarked-by a graduate of Wesleyan and a schoolmaster-that Harvard men are distinguished by a materialistic and atheistic look. Like an iceberg, they can be discovered at a great distance by the chill that floats around and with them; for, after entering college, the religious feelings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RELIGION AT HARVARD. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

Against this charge it is vain for us to plead that there is no Cambridge school of Theology; that our instructors differ hardly more in the matter of their instruction than in their religious views (how then can there be an unbalanced effort to lead us from the strait way...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RELIGION AT HARVARD. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

Those of us who think must therefore admit that Harvard leans towards infidelity. The Professors are much to blame for this. True, they do not directly inculcate bad principles. They are too wily to do that. They prefer to accomplish their end, in a safer and surer way, by the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RELIGION AT HARVARD. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

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