Word: halcyons
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...fair degree of contempt for certain methods which at present obtain among the students. But a class of students whose reading was Dickens, although two or more years younger than the corresponding class of to-day, were of course, "above the reproach of being magnificent animals," for those were halcyon days, when "boys began preparation for college younger," when "schools were not yet nurseries," and when students "liked books that made them think." (Dickens and De Quincey). Nestor's boast of the prowess of his youthful days is paralleled at last. Yes, the youth then were more mature and (individually...
These are our halcyon days. There is no doubt about it. But why can't we appreciate the fact? Somehow, we feel something hanging over us intervening between us and summer, and vaguely realize this to be the dark, thunder-cloud of the finals. Then, we don't fully appreciate our college life, for thinking of what is before us in after life. Yet all the time, we know that we are leading a mighty pleasant existence. Well, we may as well make up our minds to it, we shall always have something disagreeable mixed in with the agreeable...
...commencement "Ye General Court of ye Massachusetts Colony did sit down at meat with ye lads to encourage them." In those primitive days the corporation treasury rolled in a maze of "pecks of wheat" and "mellow apples," paid by the people for the support of learning. Those were the halcyon days when the alma mater was herself sustained by milk from "ye udders of certain notable fat cattle...
...devoted to an article upon the Harvard-Yale university races, and the races of the inter-collegiate rowing association. The article is elaborately illustrated, and contains a complete record of the races, from the victory of the Harvard crew in the old One ida over the Yale boat Halcyon, in 1852, up to our defeat by Yale at New London last spring. The development of the rowing interest in American colleges is traced, and the present methods of training and racing are fully described. There can be but little doubt that Outing will be in demand this month at Harvard...
Like the honeyed speech of Nestor, as the olden poet tells; 'Tis the mem'ry of its freedom in the halcyon days of yore Wafted from the fallen Venice, Hadria's mighty queen no more...