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...bright face beams with a ruddy glow...
...writer continues, "the genuine college spirit shone out. Harvard was really there. One saw it, sensed it, distinguished the flavor of it. Some seventy of the alumni were present, besides a few invited guests. They were mostly of the younger generation, but not all. All, however, had the glow and freshness of the student's life still bright upon them. A finer company of gentlemen could probably not be found anywhere in the world. A company of brighter, fresher and purer faces we never saw, and shall probably never see. There were present, direct from home and the common mother...
...thirty-five years, is an interesting event in the career of a distinguished and honored man. During the generation which has placed him among the foremost of our men of letters, Dr. Holmes has been devoted also to scientific study, and the brilliancy of his wit and the tender glow of his poetic genius have but enhanced the value of his professional teaching. The Professor, the Autocrat and the Poet have been interchangeable, and his latest published lecture to his classes is as notable for various and accurate and unusual learning as it is for crisp and charming literary skill...
...people were crowded and restricted, and, from the noise and flurry, a stranger might have imagined there was going to be, perhaps, a wedding, or some public display. The services, with some exceptions, were quite lacking in impressiveness, and, in some instances, were insufferably dull and without the glow of feeling that should have been an attendant inspiration on such an occasion. The fetid atmosphere, the mediocre character of the exercises, and the suffering humanity, made this an occasion that proved to be an absurdly disappointing experience to those present...
...Lathrop is announced to be the author of "After Glow," in the No-Name Series...