Word: maying
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...curiosity of a few is no reason for adopting it. The matter is a delicate one, and suggests the need of rewards for scholarship itself, in addition to the present general provision for pecuniary aid. If the Faculty persist in the course upon which they have determined, we may expect to find the names of those who hold "scholarships" in the next Harvard Index...
Human eyes may see so very...
...while the metre of the "Portrait" is most simple and familiar. We must, then, have mistaken the intention of the Lit.'s poet. Will the Courant kindly explain what the unusual metre is? The idea, however, of "A Counterfeit Presentment" is very pretty, and very well worked out. It may also be mentioned in this connection that the lines containing the rhyme to which the Advocate objected so strenuously in its last number, are quoted from Mrs. Browning's "A Portrait," one of her most familiar poems...
...find in the next paragraph, "we define an amateur to be," etc., etc. Nothing could be fairer or plainer than this, and unless Henley really fear us it would be well for her to stop this dodging business, and publish her definition. The Columbia crew sail for England on May 22, but they will hardly do much for their college, as they are evidently rather slow...
...frequently reminded in recitations of the emphatic statement of an instructor here, delivered in such a striking manner that it is impossible to forget it: "Gentlemen, this college is not a young ladies' boarding-school." I am inclined to doubt this assertion whenever I hear the familiar words, "You may omit the following passage"; but a look around the room, and the sight of N.'s imposing siders and T.'s incipient moustache convince me of its correctness. Then I wonder why the omission was made...