Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...life is the cloud above...
...Yard was very gay with hacks and stages, and looked as cheerful as our old camp-meetings. It was very different from the Puritanic university Prexie Short Hair told us of; but, then, he came there in vacation, and may have got a one-sided idea of student life at Harvard...
...amateur is any person who has never competed in an open competition, or for a stake, or for public money, or for admission money, or with professionals for a prize, public money, or admission money; nor has ever, at any period of his life, taught or assisted in the pursuit of athletic exercises as a means of livelihood. No communication will receive attention unless addressed to the Club box; and all persons are particularly requested not to call upon the officers of the Club at their places of business...
...friends. Either its recent history has been one of rapid retrograde, or else the scholarship of New England has gone suddenly ahead of the standard of its most venerable seat of learning. It has been charged that Harvard men are not fit to take places in every-day life; that they are apes of Oxford, or the more unlovely features of English scholarship in general, and Oxford in particular; that they are malproportionately intemperate; that they are emphatically a 'foolish and perverse generation'; and that their courses of study are crowded full of faults...
...promising student, so that that part of his energy which would otherwise be spent in overcoming the difficulties of the journey to Parnassus may be devoted to intellectual effort; and, up to a certain point, everything which relieves the mind of the strain of over-exertion and makes life cheerful is so much help to the hard worker. Shut off from society, compelled to pass four years of exhausting, unremitting labor in dingy dormitories and uncomfortable recitation-rooms, the poor student, who depends solely on his own high rank for his daily bread, has few of the amenities of life...