Word: class
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...family of Aldus has gained lasting renown by their success in this field. An Aldine copy of Lucius Fiorus (Venetiis, 1521) in my possession exhibits a distinctness of typography and general excellence of appearance that for those infant days of the art are quite commendable. Of this class of printers, to whom we might allow the name of artists, we may instance the London Murray and a few of our own leading publishers...
...attach to either. Even the class races for the graduates' cup excite no particular stir, perhaps because the result is already considered by most as a foregone conclusion...
...thing where Freshmen have usually been deficient we hope to see an improvement, and that is in making themselves felt through the college press. And this applies to the class as a whole, and not to those few who in their own or partial friends' opinion have literary ability. On such as have, perhaps, never entertained the thought of their ability to write, we would enjoin the advisability of trying; for the main requisite is to have something to say, and surely among so large a number it cannot be but there are ideas and information for which the college...
...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...
...life, and the evil day of dissolution was averted, for a time at least. The fact then came to light that of last year's Freshmen only thirty had become members; and these last really did not seem to enjoy any privileges from which the rest of the class were debarred...