Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Legate may possibly pull as number three. Last Monday afternoon a large and enthusiastic crowd of graduates and undergraduates had the satisfaction of seeing the New London crew, with only one change in its complement, pull past the float with the same magnificent stroke that has won them their well-merited reputation. We are expressing the feeling of the entire college when we heartily thank the stroke and the bow of the '78 crew for coming to the rescue when the future of our rowing interests seemed so disheartening. Fortunately, the offer of ten thousand dollars is still left open...
...Williams Athenaeum is well divided between literary efforts and college news. The former department is less ponderous than last year; the number before us contains quite a pretty love-poem, and also a hymn entitled "The Awakening...
...full, if they did not contain a most undignified personal attack, written probably without sufficient thought, and which it would do the Courant injustice to repeat. There are two editorials on the subject, probably written by different editors in different degrees of indignation. The first would have done very well by itself. Its author rejoices "in once more looking forward to a good foot-ball season," for the Courant's "love of sport overcomes any sentimental considerations," that is, any desire to play with elevens. He then criticises severely the action of one of the Harvard delegates, and ends...
...Sophomore, indeed!" said the young man, smiling. "Well, I am more Sophomore than anything else, but I am a Junior and a Senior and a graduate, too. I am always a college man, and a man of the world as well; but my favorite resorts are summer watering-places and college societies. I was created when Eve was and have lived ever since, though I never grow old. I am a sort of Phoenix. My occupations are various, but at present I am stumping the State for Butler. You have never heard of me, I dare say! Pity! pity! time...
...careful that you do not work too hard for that. College interests are like the enchantress in the fairy-tale, who, when the forty days of her fondness were over, made her lovers pay a terrible penalty for the crime of having once pleased her too well...