Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...next to impossible for any great number of students to have the same impression of college life. Each individual judges by his own experience, which resembles no other; consequently an attempt to sum up all these in an imaginary college life runs a great risk of pleasing nobody...
Whether "Hammersmith" will obtain a fixed position as the Harvard novel, is a question which must be left to the decision of the more experienced; that it will gain great popularity, and deserved popularity, in the present, can be safely affirmed. In spite of its length, it is a pleasant book to read, and some parts of it will bear more than one reading. We recommend it to all Harvard men as a companion in their summer travels...
...Moses King's little book entitled "Harvard and its Surroundings," which is a guide-book of a character worthy of the great University of New England, is the following unique advertisement, which, after an appropriate verse to the air of "Fair Harvard," proceeds as follows...
...Great credit is due to the marshals, Mr. Thayer, Mr. Bancroft, and Mr. William Otis, for the able way in which they performed their duties. The Class-Day Committee deserve the praise of the college as well as of the class for the completeness of their arrangements, and for the smoothness and precision with which these arrangements were carried out. Mr. Teschemacher deserves especial mention for the energy and the executive ability he has shown in his onerous office. In concluding our notice of this Class Day we can only wish '79 as successful...
...like those of Canterbury of long centuries ago, are quick to entertain themselves. Different men find many different attractions in a time like this, but I think we shall all of us agree that one of them, at least, is its evenness. The scales, elsewhere ascending and descending with great abruptness, here come to a quiet poise. We are from all sorts of pursuits, all sorts of hobbies, but here there is only one. We are of all ages, born in different years, graduating in different years; but here we are all of one age, we are all boys...