Word: loved
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lassoing their elders and betters in the semblance of buffalo, or shooting each other with arrows, in the semblance of red men. The precautions taken by each crew, not to allow the other side to see them at their best, may be confidently set down to man's inborn love of outdoing his fellow by sly means as well as by the exercise of power. Every collegian is a Joey Bagstock, who hugs himself if he feels that he is 'devilish...
...maker. There are a number who wish places in counting-rooms, banks, offices, or as salesmen in branch stores at popular seashore resorts. The most numerous body are applicants for positions as tutors, either of boys fitting for college or of children whose parents wish them to learn to love science by intelligent observation of nature...
...book is divided into five parts: Fair Harvard, Life, Love, Youth and Fate, containing poems ranging all the way from topical to sentimental, descriptive to despairing, Part I. is preceded by Dr. Holmes' merry poem, "How the Old Horse Won the Bet," dedicated to the "Advocate" ten years ago, and now reprinted for the first time. This alone would make the book valuable in itself, were it not already made doubly so by a verse of the lamented Loring, who "always mourned and always honored," still keeps his renown as bright as at his untimely death...
BOSTON MUSEUM. - "Love in Harness...
BOSTON MUSEUM. - "Love in Harness...