Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Alumni have elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Samuel Eliot; Vice-Presidents, George S. Hillard, Henry W. Bellows, Thomas Donaldson, Henry Lee, Manning F. Frost, Joseph H. Choate, Phillips Brooks, Francis J. Child, Henry J. Bigelow, William C. Endicott; Directors, Theodore Lyman, Henry S. Russell, Arthur Lincoln, Charles Eliot Norton, James Lawrence, William Brandt Storer, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; Treasurer, S. Lothrop Thorndike; Secretary, Samuel A. Green...
...than Arthur's farewell...
...also interesting to notice that in Malory's history the legend seems tinged with the Greek idea of fate and of slowly coming retribution. Malory's Arthur is not the spotless knight of Tennyson, but one who has committed a deadly crime, the punishment for which and for the sins of his knights is gradually being developed...
...multitude of French romances have had for their subjects the adventures of Arthur and his knights, in war and in search of the Sangreal, and from them much of these histories was probably derived...
...books most easily accessible by ourselves are Mr. Wright's edition of Malory's "History of King Arthur," and Mr. Furnival's edition of "Le Morte Arthur," by Gautier's Mapier, who wrote it as a conclusion to his account of the adventures of the Holy Graal. This last edition is valuable, because the Preface, and an essay on Arthur, by the late Herbert Coleridge, contain much interesting matter relative to the history of these legends. From Mr. Furnival's Preface are derived most of the facts embodied in this article...