Word: shepherd
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...marked features of the number, however, are Mr. Leahy's story of the French shepherd boy who is fou, and Mr. Berenson's "Heinrich Jung-Stillung." It connot but make us proud, as Harvard students, that such work is being done among us. Mr. Leahy, in his story, has touched a note much higher in both strength and purity than is reached in the mass of college work. We would only suggest that he might have gained even greater strength, had he followed more closely the brevity and compactness in the formation of his sentences, which is a strong point...
...even at the beginning of the present one, it was thought no disgrace to "the cloth" to contest wrestling bouts in the north country. There was no money- that bane of all sports- to compete for. He wrestled for honor alone, and if "t' priest could thraw t' shepherd" more likely were his sermons to find their way to the hearts of his rustic parishioners. One clergyman, when he had got up in years, was wont to boast...
...time to take a book home, as it were, and make it part of himself. He never 'travels over the mind' of a great author till he becomes as familiar with its beauties and its nooks, its heights, its levels, and its denths, as a Cumberland shepherd with the mountains and valleys round about his home. He never looks upon his books as his friends. It is to his head, and not to his heart, that he wishes to take them; and he only cares to keep them there till they have served their purpose at the next examination...
...witless shepherd who persists to drive...
...opera of "Penekese" is to take place the last of April, and will doubtless be a great success. Those taking part are now rehearsing several times each week, and are rapidly becoming masters of it. The libretto was written by Mr. Buell, '83, and the music by Prof. Shepherd. The custom of holding class games is to be instituted this spring, and it is hoped that the experiment will prove a success. The spring games will take place at Hamilton Park, either...