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...resigned his position in 1872 to accept the management of the literary department of the Nation. Of what he has done there it is unnecessary to speak. Every reader of the Nation knows with what power and ability that department of the paper has been managed for the past two years...
...test the mighty projects fermenting in our brains. At this time of life men are wont to regard themselves as specially destined to some great work, which assures their continued existence of necessity. They were made for the world, and the world only awaits their coming to rectify its past errors. It is not till years of obstacle and failure have convinced us of the insignificant influence which our human life has on the slow and ponderous progress of the world, that the delusion ceases, and we begin to regard our life in its true relations to what has gone...
...went to his home in Boston. Once again he was in Cambridge, when, in spite of the inclement weather and of his weakness, he came to take what part he might in the Class Day of '74, - his own Class Day. On Tuesday last his body was borne past the College Yard, under the shadow of the building in which he spent the two years of his life here, and now lies almost within sound of the College bell...
...Sunday morning! The next step downward will be some such villanous scheme as the ventilation of the recitation-rooms. But why should that religious service which is necessary six mornings in the week be found superfluous on the seventh? Truly, O wise and consistent Faculty, thy inscrutable ways are past finding...
...next race for six oars was postponed twenty minutes, in the hope that the water would be less rough, but at half past four the thermometer in the judges' boat was so close upon the freezing-point that the boats were called and came into line...