Word: arrows
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...somewhat uneven, but the poem as a whole is well sustained and the handling of the chorus and the difficult stichomythia is unusually good. As a minor point it may be noted that the characterization of Paris as the "husband of Helen of Troy, mortally wounded by the arrow of Philoctetes" and of Oenone as "a demi-goddess--who can heal mortal wounds--and the love of Paris until he saw Helen" ought not to be necessary in a college community, but perhaps the author is right in taking no chances. The other poems call for no special comment...
...fall in love with him. With the aid of Susan, his Dulcinea del Toboso, he resists her blandishments. After a blameless career, he is finally slain by his guiding genius, as the latter considers that he must die to finish the play. He delivers an epilogue with an arrow through his temples at the close of the play...
...whom a poem might occur, as did the 'Arrow and the Song,' while he stood before the fire waiting for his children to go to church with him; and he was equally able to spend patient years in hearing and weighing 'slowly and with decorum,' as he says, the criticism of other and younger Italian scholars on his version of Dante. He was abstemious, yet wrote joyous drinking songs for his friends;--did not call himself an abolitionist, yet pronounced the day of the execution of John Brown of Ossawatomie to be 'the date of a new Revolution, quite...
...Last Arrow" and other poems, by H.D. Atwood, contains a number of occasional and other verses of considerable interest to Mr. Atwood's friends. They are pleasantly written: and though seldom revealing great depth of poetical inspiration, often have an attractive smoothness of metre. One could wish, however, that Mr. Atwood could have formed for his thoughts an originality of expression worthy of them...
...option on the property bounded by Massachusetts avenue, Bow and Arrow streets, back of Quincy Hall, has been obtained by Messrs. H. M. Williams, G. E. Cabot and others. Plans have been drawn by Whitman and Hood of Boston for a new dormitory, to be erected on this property, and to be ready for tenancy in September, 1904. The plans provide for a structure of brick and limestone about a central court. The building will contain seventy-eight suites, and will be equipped with squash-tennis courts and a swimming pool. The dormitory will be named after President Langdon, whose...