Word: meteors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Ambition may emit a meteor blaze...
...probably been found necessary to benefit the school at the expense of the game. Of its unpopularity there can be no question; and there will probably be much gnashing of teeth and lamentation over the degeneracy of the present amongst the foot-ball heroes of the past. - Rugby Meteor...
...Meteor of Rugby and the Etonian of Eton both reflect credit upon the English schools; all the matter in these papers is readable, and, we should judge, of immediate interest to the students. Would that we could say the same of all our college journals! There's the Amherst Student for one, out of many instances; three of its columns are devoted to an article called "A Shakspearian Trilogy," and three more to an essay on Hogarth; no one ever cares to read such effusions as these; if there is more space than can be filled with interesting matter...
...English school papers which we have received this week are filled with accounts of athletic contests. The Meteor, Rugby School, has reached its one hundredth number, and states its position as a paper clearly and humbly. None of these English school journals make pretensions to being anything more than a record of the events which occur in school. No regular "articles" are admitted to their columns, for, says the Meteor...
...wish to call to the notice of the Cornell Review, the Nassau Lit., and the Hamilton Literary Monthly, the stanza we quote this week from the Rugby Meteor. If they read this, and then ask themselves why they exist, we hope for the best result...