Word: spice
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...scarcity of personal anecdote; nearly everything is said in the generalized form of "characterizations"; the well-known story of an early Faculty meeting in the Medical School, quoted from Dr. Holmes' life in Thayer's two pages, is the only exception. Evidently another series of articles, with a larger spice of personal reminiscence, might follow this one. Some of the chapters might be: the President as a summer housekeeper, by a native of Mt. Desert; the President as a guest at Harvard Clubs, by old graduates all over the country; how I have changed my opinion about the President...
...selections have a strong spice of college flavor, and especially of that period of the College when all the undergraduates knew one another and the College papers had not acquired too much dignity to enjoy running a few pointed personal "roasts." Again, many of the selections are decidedly above the average of undergraduate verse, for instance, Garrison's poem "On the Skull Ensconced in a College Room" which is doubly sinister when one remembers the early death of that promising poet...