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...sorrowful eyes of this creature so good...
...think, will be found in favor of it. Those who are opposed to it for the most part regard only present effects, the unpleasantness which the one to whom the system is applied may at first experience, and do not analyze the results to ascertain whether they are good...
...that which Thackeray dwells upon, which excites his enthusiasm. Perhaps there is no quality which we should less expect to find in a cynic than that of pathos, certainly there is none in which Thackeray more excels. And, moreover, his pathos is extremely simple and unartificial. A good instance of it is the description of Colonel Newcome's death. In this there is no introduction of surroundings for the sake of dramatic effect; the account reads like that of one whose grief was too sincere for elaboration. It seems as if the author were lost in the friend...
...Higginson says that this scholarship will produce emulation between the high scholars or the colleges similar to that between the boat-crews at the Regatta; the Nation thinks this emulation would be a feature disastrous to the good effects of the system, and seems to entertain a very poor opinion of the College Races for this very reason, that they foster such great rivalry between men for the sake of mere glory. We find it hinted that the time may come when the college authorities will forbid these brutal displays, and that the art of rowing may be sufficiently well...
...Oxford Undergraduates' Journal says: `It is with sincere pleasure that we are able to make mention of the many good classes taken last term in the schools by rowing men. Of those who have won their blue E. Giles took a first in Modern History, and F. H. Hall in Classics, J. E. Edwards-Moss a second in Law, and C. C. Knollys in Mathematics. F. E. Armitstead, also, whose aquatic reputation is surpassed by that of no blue, took a second in Classics. Several men who have rowed in the Trials took good classes, foremost among whom should...