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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...must all confess, however, that the author of "Hammersmith" has shown us a living Harvard, if not exactly the Harvard which each one of us knows. Times have changed since he was here; distance has added a romantic coloring to his recollections; but the portrait which he has drawn is a likeness, even if it is an ideal...
...Oxford" glided into glory under cover of the earlier Tom Brown's reputation, we have been waiting for the American Tom Brown. Many aspirants to that title have arisen, but none of them has the popular verdict recognized. Mr. Severance has struggled hard to gain it, and we must do him the justice to say that he has followed his model with the most conscientious exactness. Both the heroes row in exciting races; each of them has two loves, one in high and one in low life; both the heroines sprain their ankles and have to be carried home...
Whether "Hammersmith" will obtain a fixed position as the Harvard novel, is a question which must be left to the decision of the more experienced; that it will gain great popularity, and deserved popularity, in the present, can be safely affirmed. In spite of its length, it is a pleasant book to read, and some parts of it will bear more than one reading. We recommend it to all Harvard men as a companion in their summer travels...
...gentlemen who have been undergraduates for five years or more assure us that they have never seen a Class Day which can compare in point of festivity and propitious weather with the Class Day of '78. Certainly the fondest hopes of the Seniors must have been realized on that...
Seven long years must he love...