Word: likes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Sorrows crowd upon me thickly, life is like a gloomy night...
Suicide would seem to be the only thing left for the unfortunate writer as "sorrows crowd upon him thickly," and his "life is like a gloomy night." Again we have the false ring, bringing with it as a matter of course, ridicule. Sincerity is of value in any thing under heaven, but nowhere more than in poetry of any decent kind. This is a point the "ridiculous poets" always forget...
...thinking of the flaxen-haired Gretchen who served you that pretzel and that last glass of beer, when, on a sudden your meditations are rudely dispersed and your thoughts brought to earth again. Looking up, you find you have brushed against a man who appears for all the world like a battered veteran of the wars, but whom, by his cap, dress, spectacles and other insignia, you recognize at length as a German student. His face is scarred and seamed, it may be that part og one ear is gone ; certainly his appearance is redoubtable. The apology which rose...
...paper, it may not be amiss to note the changes which have taken place in Harvard journalism during the time the present senior class has been in college. Previous to '84's entrance, a feeling had rapidly been gaining ground that a daily paper in a large university like Harvard was both a possibility and a necessity. The year before '84 came to college this feeling became expressed in the Echo, which, although it died a natural death within a few years of its birth, did great good in the part it played, as the pioneer daily of Harvard...
...Harvard boating has there been so much interest centered in the class races. Every day a large number of students go down to the boat-house to watch the different crews at their work on the river. Eight men in a boat, moving backward and forward with machine-like regularity, all with caps corresponding to the colors of their oars, present a fine sight. Each of the three upper class crews entertain great hopes of victory, and take every opportunity to improve its chines of success. These three crews are so evenly matched that it would be rash to prophesy...