Word: said
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...fashioned lunatic lovers, on tree-trunks, by poets are said...
...evening the whole Yard was beautifully illuminated with lanterns, and was crowded with listeners to the singing of the Glee Club and the fine music of the Germania Band. By half past ten all good-byes were said, all the ladies had departed (after a delightful day, we sincerely hope), and the old Yard assumed its customary midnight stillness, rather ashamed, perhaps, of the sorry appearance it had made on this, its gala-day, and hoping that those sparrows would come before next year...
...fiction can be made out a type of something or other. Kenelm Chillingly would appear to be the type of culture; though, in adding this to an already great array, we are shamefully conscious of taking our very little share in that too hot pursuit of types which is said to be a failing of the present age. Kenelm Chillingly is distinguished from other men by his love of independence, not an independence of order and proper restraint, but an independence of cant and conventionality; by his love for learning and contempt for pedantry; by his charity...
...order of exercises on a Commencement has been stereotyped by custom, so that little more need be said in regard to any particular one than that it was like all preceding. Last year there were the usual happy reunions of the Graduates in different rooms of the dormitories; the usual affecting meetings in the Yard of friends who for years had not felt the strength of one another's arms, and upon the rather noisy demonstration of whose emotions the partial proctor gazed without a thought of publics or of suspensions, but with a sigh that by his unnatural employment...
...Third Annual Regatta is a thing of the past. About its results we have but little to say; in fact, too much has been already said. Certain newspapers, with a mistaken friendliness, which we ought, perhaps, to be grateful for, but with a want of delicacy which all must blame, have hotly fought what they considered to be our battle, making Harvard seem dissatisfied with the decision of Mr. Babcock. The fact is that, under the circumstances, there was but one decision to be made, and that was the one which Mr. Babcock made, and no member of the crew...