Word: us
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Williams Athenaeum is well divided between literary efforts and college news. The former department is less ponderous than last year; the number before us contains quite a pretty love-poem, and also a hymn entitled "The Awakening...
...informs us that Cocagne is to continue its labour of amusement this year...
...hope to see Harvard stand very high on the list. No college in America has the facilities for athletic sports of all kinds that we have, and that better time is not made at our meetings is simply disgraceful. However, better things may be in store for us in the future...
...like one of those strange works of Turner, hideous and unreal. When will the Freshman be himself again? Perhaps in four years, - perhaps to-morrow. Until then we shall know him by his feigned face and mock-heroic air: for we, too, have all seen Humbug; and many of us, like the Freshman, have taken his advice. A few there are who realize that they have heard only Humbug's side of the question...
...maxim with these well-informed men never to allow their friends to suppose that they are ignorant of anything. The other evening, when we were debating the authorship of "revenons a nos moutons," one of these gentlemen of wide reading smiled at our ignorance, and assured us Voltaire was the originator. When convinced, with difficulty, of his mistake, he says: "O yes, was thinking of something else; have read so much French since I came to college that I really can't remember everything...