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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...former, if present without the latter, can lay no claim to merit. If men forget that we have had four centuries of printing, and so seek to make encyclopaedias of themselves, they must pay the penalty of their forgetfulness, for the days of the admiration of walking dictionaries are past. It is this absence of character which these verses intimate, and an absence of the respect which character would have inspired, but without which wisdom is belittled and its aspect made deplorable...
...University Crew left for Springfield yesterday on the eleven-o'clock train, their boats having been sent on three hours before. All were in good condition, and looked and acted as if the severe training of the past year had not brought them down too "fine." The quarters of the crew are about half-way down the course, and numerous opportunities will be offered of seeing Yale pull over the four miles. Before the 30th, Fearon's and Blakey's boats will be tried over the course, and the better boat selected. The old eight has been made much lighter...
...review the record of athletic sports for the past year would be but to say, what we have already said, that either sloth or devotion to higher pursuits has taken away large numbers of the devotees of the race-course. The club races and the athletic sports have been universally acknowledged "fizzles." But while the contests among ourselves have not reflected as much credit upon us as usual, we seem more likely this year to carry away laurels from the contests before us with other colleges, than last year. Our Nine has already covered itself with glory...
...investigating the historic past of Boston is not the only attraction for the student. Browsing in its libraries, - that of the city of Boston and the Boston Athenaeum, incomparable in management and size, - improving its opportunities for study of the sciences unsurpassed by any American city; cruising around the harbor, saluting the "Marathon" off Boston Light, just from Europe, or scudding (with the lee scuppers under water and every inch of canvas set) under the brow of formidable forts, past the Halcyon, the Romance, or the Brenda, form an agreeable diversion to the ordinary routine of strict application...
Patriotism and reverence for the old, the venerable, the heroic in the past, are rarities nowadays. There is no better incentive to intelligent, whole-souled patriotism than the study of the past of our own country. Every true patriot may well exclaim with Edward Everett: "I should feel ashamed of an enthusiasm for Italy and Greece, did I not also feel it for a land like this...