Word: thoughfully
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Unfortunately for the pageant the day proved misty, and though I had a good lookout from one of the men-of-war in the harbor, I could with difficulty perceive his landing on the steps of the ducal palace directly opposite me. The evening was devoted to the illumination of the Grand Canal. After dark I took a gondola and floated...
...Though knowing not, it rushes to its goal...
...last number of the Amherst Student is a good though rather heavy one. From a paragraph in it we infer that Amherst Sophomores emulate the far-famed boys of Marblehead in their reception of strangers. Visitors, especially ladies, are greeted with hoots and yells from the class of '76, assembled in a crowd for that purpose. The Student condemns his practice in words which are strong, but not too strong. The only poem in this number is a short but pretty one, called The Prayer of Phidias...
...this connection, though with no slanderous intent, we feel called upon to warn our fellow-students that it will soon be necessary to bid farewell to a College officer. The watchman is about to leave us. The Faculty feel that he has done well, that he has done more than well, but a watchman is no longer needed at their weekly meetings, and he must go. Not the man, but the office, is the object of their disapproval; the watchman goes forth, we assure our readers, with reputation as unspotted as when he came. We attempt no eulogy...
...seems no more than proper that we should notice what appears to be the death of hazing, though it may be but 2 comatose state into which "that good old custom" has fallen. Of late years hazing has been gradually softening down into a system of roughing - varied by an occasional barbarity - severe enough to injure only that stock of self-conceit which is said to belong to every young man of seventeen or thereabout. But this year we have had not even a "Bloody Monday," nor are we likely to witness any of the consequences which have usually followed...