Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale '89 crew practically defeated our freshmen two years ago, but the fact that they did not know how to row well enough in rough water, and so did not reach the finish-but the bottom-first has nothing to do with the matter. It is a good thing when a college knows how to take a defeat, even if they are occasional...
...drowsy shade is massed densely in the distance, while the square shoulders of Memorial Hall push up into the sky on the right. Low in the middle distance is the cupola of Hemenway Gymnasinm, and further on a slender spire or two more. The whole thing is dreamy and soft and full of summer. "Elmwood" shows one side of Lowell's home with a view of the broad veranda, and in one corner a tall graceful aisle of pines "Pines of Elmwood." The etching of Longfellow's house is less original, merely giving the front view we know so well...
...Beranger, is not well done. It lacks entirely the grace of the original. Following this there is a well-written and interesting study on La Rochefoucauld. The quotations are chosen with a great deal of diserimination and accomplish their object of illustrating the points called up-a very rare thing, by the way, in student essays. "Mr. Hutton as a Critic" is too pedantic, and what good thoughts it contains are almost hidden by the insufficiency of the style. Some lines "To the Composite Photograph of the November Century" are very bright and introduce some neat plays on words...
...very difficult for those interested in the lecture to hear what was being said. The lectures in English B are voluntar, and those who do not care enough for the subject to keep quiet through the entire hour had better stay away. In History I very much the same thing has been noticeable for several weeks. Harvard is not a preparatory school, and this mention ought to be enough to prevent such a thing happening again...
Voice after voice in damnable antiphone suggests the remissness of the faculty in this thing or that or the other. And ourselves? Oh, we undergraduates have enough to do in finding fault...