Word: next
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...next to impossible for any great number of students to have the same impression of college life. Each individual judges by his own experience, which resembles no other; consequently an attempt to sum up all these in an imaginary college life runs a great risk of pleasing nobody...
THERE were 245 candidates examined for admission to the next Freshman class, of whom 119 applied under the new method...
...amusing to look over the accounts of Class Day that appeared in the Boston papers the next morning. One paper says that "nearly every one had invitations to more than one of these [spreads], and there was a constant passing to and fro, with a lively interchange of gossip and badinage, which was entered into with zest by both hosts and guests." We are told in another place that "there was the usual rush for the flowers, in which nearly every one received some blossoms, while not a few came off with bruises, which sent them limping off for liniments...
Putting our hand into our drawer, we next chance on a piece in blank-verse. Perhaps it would be well enough to give its title...
...X.The next is a poem - a touching strain - by a gentleman of the same class. We readily understand how it is that Freshmen should be the butt of the upper classes, but why they butt at themselves is beyond comprehension...