Word: gloriously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. S. Waterhouse of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., a graduate of Harvard University in 1853, in the same class with President Eliot, and one who has been an officer of Washington University throughout its whole life, more than twenty-five years, predicts for Harvard College a glorious future. He says...
...week passes in a constant round of festivity. Garden-parties in the college grounds, picnics up the Granta and the Isis; concerts and balls at night; and not least, the glorious music and impressive services of Sunday, in time honored chapels, whose walls exhibit great names of those who in their turn have studied and worshipped in those sacred precincts - such are the attractions which the universities hold out to their summer visitors, and which are little likely to be forgotten by those who have the good fortune to take part in them...
There has been some talk about founding a literary magazine here, but the gentleman having the enterprise in charge has abandoned it in order to devote all his energies to foot-ball. Everything has been given up to that glorious sport - everything from chapel to poker. It would certainly be more lucrative to us if we should abandon everything but poker. I sadly fear that is is our last resource, and I have no hesitation in saying, that should an intercollegiate poker association be formed my alma mater would not be found in the rear ranks. Harvard, Yale and little...
Then said the young gentleman, "Gen. Butler will bestride his wonderful horse, and will canter over Cambridge bridge. You will have given him the knightly accolate, and the college will have a new honor in this last and most glorious doctor of laws...
James Parton's new lecture is entitled "The Coming Man's Education." It begins: "I have in my mind's eye a glorious university, completely organized and equipped to afford an education such as the future man will be given. It looks not at all like Oxford or Cambridge, or even like Harvard. It looks more like a factory village situated in the midst of a finely cultivated farm of one thousand acres, with beautiful gardens and parks, the whole the centre of a thriving industry such as our factory villages might be, must be, shall and are just going...