Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Through the morning of our life...
...certainly a very Freshman-like custom, this buying seats for forty in the most prominent part of the house, this going to theatres en masse; and if a party of undergraduates, who have not enjoyed the experience of more than six months of college life, occupy conspicuous seats in a Boston theatre and display more hilarity than dignity in their deportment, is the Boston press going to correct their shortcomings by designating them as the "Harvard...
ALMOST all the college papers have contained reviews of "Student Life at Harvard." Of the reviewers, some have praised lavishly, while others have not spared criticism; but all have found some pleasure in reading the book. The extremes of criticism have been found in reviews outside the college press. While we have found nothing in the book to justify the indiscriminate praise of the Boston journals, we have certainly found nothing to justify the contemptuous and ill-natured growls of the New York Times and the Atlantic...
...which Vassar wishes to appear before the public, is not through articles, written by her inmates, in which the peculiarities of our life here are made the most of, and the aims and objects toward which that life tends are entirely ignored...
...take the more fortunate case, where the examinations are pleasantly sprinkled all along the dusty road, oases as it were in the dreary waste of college life. Even there, I claim, the time is not sufficiently long. To properly review the work of months within three weeks, without "exhaustive toil and midnight oil," is generally impossible. The ambitious student grinds and digs his health away, while the "bummer," secure in the thought of no recitations to-morrow, spends the days in sleep, the nights in "howls...