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...Wednesday last the sad news of the death of one of Harvard's noblest sons was sent over the country from Washington. Any tribute that we could pay to his integrity, industry, and ability would be quite uncalled for in the light of his world-wide fame. He graduated in 1830, without a high rank in his class, having devoted his time, it is said, to hard reading instead of the required work of the College course. He was a member of the Hasty Pudding and Porcellian Clubs; and as one of his classmates has said, all that distinguished...
...their notice, that even the dullest could not help correcting them. The College has already taken this matter in hand, as is proved by its requiring the candidates for admission to write short essays at their examination; but it is feared that these requirements, unless carefully kept in the light by those who desire a change in the present system, may pass into as dark a shadow as that which has fallen upon the requisitions in English reading. These entrance examinations might furnish a basis on which to divide the class into several sections, which should differ from each other...
...colorless. Just look at the reflection in the pond below you. You get the effect of infinite space below as well as above, - one sea of gold imperceptibly yet rapidly shifting into all the colors of the spectroscope. What wonderful massing of clouds, too! - Swiss mountains and glaciers with light and shadow perfect! Yes, it is getting dark, and it begins to rain. What? Tremont Street? Have I been dreaming? No; only looking at a collection of J. Foxcroft Cole's landscapes...
Along their heavenly path of light...
Like liquid light its rivers rolled...