Word: braves
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...farewell as of hail, that I would willingly leave unspoken, - a farewell for those whose records are written, whose annals are rolled up, and whose faces we are to see no more. During the past year there are numbered among them the good, the learned, and the brave, - Quincy and Motley and others, who, in their time and place, have led noble and truthful lives. I leave to each class, and to each circle of friends, the recollections that come, and must come of necessity, on a day like this. Yet, though I do not undertake to recall them...
...young and brave and strong...
...degree would make cribbing a virtue endowed with saving grace. Just as though such losses were not the inevitable result of previous, long-continued neglect of duty; and they would be borne as such by men who were not so childish as to need a master, and who were brave enough to recognize their own responsibility for their acts and to abide by the consequences. Well, make believe they are men, and give them voluntary recitations; but be assured, so long as Freshmen are under men whose own characters are yet so undeveloped as to give them no time...
...Saturday afternoon the burlesque "Alonzo the Fair and the Brave Imogene" was performed before an audience larger than that on the night before. The illness of the original Alonzo made it impossible for him to appear; but the part was taken at a day's notice, and performed in such a manner that the audience had no occasion to remember the hasty preparation. The part of Mephistopheles was admirably acted, and his singing was, on the whole, the best in the burlesque. Faust looked and played well, though his singing was occasionally out of tune. Imogene was surpassingly beautiful...
...Harvard. In the beginning of each course there was generally a very large audience, composed chiefly of students; but toward the end, though given by men who have no superiors in their line in this country, the numbers dwindled down to a sturdy few, who were willing to brave rain, storm, bad ventilation, and the attractions offered by the "Athens of America," and were, as far as I can learn, never sorry for it. In fact, I doubt if ever any man could be sorry that he put himself to any inconvenience for the sake of hearing Cervantes translated...