Word: realing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale once more claims the college championship in rowing. How absurd this is. We should think that a college that can boast of so many real achievements would disdain to stoop to claiming what they have no right to. Yale rows but one race, and refuses all other challenges, and then claims the championship of all the colleges. If any college has a right to such claim, it is the University, for we have by far the best record of any. but we make no such claim...
...happens, the real strength of the senate remains for the future to test; and the longer a general quiescence delays this, the more Amherst is to be congratulated. The past has proved, however, that the senate is entirely practicable; the judgments, while few, have not been made hastily, nor to the detriment of the college; the senate has not proved more lenient than the faculty; the latter have been entirely satisfied with its workings; and the growing popularity of the plan at Amherst and at other colleges is a good omen for the success and an increase in the powers...
Saint Saens ingenious Danse Macabre, though not finely played, so took the audience as to call forth a demand for its repetition, which Mr. Gericke unwisely yielded to. If the rule against repeats is to be broken, it would seem as if a piece of more real musical merit might furnish the occasion. The Melusine overture was taken at altogether too rapid a pace, and even then the violins showed a tendency to break away from the conductor's time: it was otherwise well done, the delicate runs in particular being evenly, and carefully brought out. The symphony...
...Spring," sings the poet, "a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." Boswell's fancy was fixed on love during the whole twelve-month. His letters, unfortunately, do not begin until he is twenty, so that we are precluded from any view of his real life until that time; but after that age, we can trace, with a good deal of accuracy, the course of his thoughts. In the very first letter we plunge head-long into an account of one of his many attachments. It does not describe one of the important affairs...
Passing over several such episodes, we come to the real love-affair of his life,-that with a certain Miss Blair. He was in love with her for several years, and she with him, yet when one wanted to marry, the other didn't, so nothing came of it. The beginning of this courtship was most romantic. "She was so good," he says, "as to prevail with her mother to come to Auchinleck, where they stayed four days; and in our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity." I fear that although his courting was carried on in such...