Word: life
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...recognized. Mr. Severance has struggled hard to gain it, and we must do him the justice to say that he has followed his model with the most conscientious exactness. Both the heroes row in exciting races; each of them has two loves, one in high and one in low life; both the heroines sprain their ankles and have to be carried home, and so on through the books. Both the authors are excellent when they describe college scenes, both fail when they introduce an irrelevant romantic element. The chief merit of "Tom Brown at Rugby" is that it tells exclusively...
Thus shortly may we dispose of the faults of the book; to speak fully of its merits would require much more space. As has already been said, it is remarkable for the vivid, and, on the whole, correct idea which it gives us of Harvard men and Harvard life. Some of the scenes are particularly well drawn, - the account of the foot-ball match, for instance, that of the boat-race, and the description of Class Day. The tone of the book is thoroughly good and manly, always excepting the love-scenes, which give little pleasure and excite still less...
...natural defence against exaggeration in this direction. It is much to be wished that our hardest-working students should come to believe, and to practise upon the belief, that a sound and vigorous body is in most cases indispensable to success in any active form of intellectual life...
...Class of 1878 in bidding farewell to college-life may be satisfied with the honorable record it leaves behind. To '78 we owe the restoration of Class Day with its time-hallowed associations, and also the example of an election of Class-Day representatives by a fair vote of the class, free from the dictation of societies and of packed meetings. Not only is the proud position which Harvard now holds, - a position so dear to the heart of every student, the championship both of the bat and of the oar - in a great measure due to the leaders which...
...successful he was. Ernst demonstrated by his effective pitching that the loss of Tyng in the second game was the sole cause of Yale's heavy batting. To the graduates of the Nine of 1878 the Crimson bids a last farewell, and wishes them as successful a career through life as they have met with on the ball-field; to the undergraduates we look for a nucleus for the Nine of 1879, and extend to them the hearty support of the Crimson in the future, as it has been extended to '78 in the past...