Word: realing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Collegensia," so familiar to students and alumni of all our leading colleges. A representative college song book cannot be made, as this one seems to have been, by getting certain ambitious tyros to write words and music, which are then put under the caption of their respective colleges. The real college song book is something of long growth, and is not written to order. In the course of years the students of any college will have hundreds of songs, out of which a choice few will survive and become firmly established as the representative song of that college. A collection...
...smaller towns which surround Boston and serve as homes for those whose business calls them into the city each day. The interest of the reader is kept up throughout the book, not in expectation of a climax and dramatic situations, but by the interest attaching to a story of real people acting in a natural manner and with sufficient plot to serve as a nucleus. The author has evidently studied his characters thoroughly, and spared no pains to make his book as complete as possible. "Forever and a Day" is far better than the average novel, which merely introduces...
...correspondent who writes in another column concerning changes in the Elective Pamphlet certainly seems to have some real grievance. He has set forth the true state of matters so fully that we need do no more than refer our readers to the article...
...think it is Thackeray who, in one of his most charming pictures of real life, says he can't but accept the world as he finds it, including a rope's end, as long as it is in fashion. We know that Thackeray was rather eccentric and we surely need no other evidence of his individuality of character than the expression of this very sentiment. For most people admire only the things that belong to antiquity, fancying that nothing can be really good until it has been dead and buried a hundred years...
...With a real old solid thumpin...