Word: bard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...then for the application of its laws to language, and, that done, of what subjects would the poets avail themselves? There would be love and war, or, if no deeds worth celebrating offered themselves (unhappily Horace's saying is sometimes reversed, and heroic men as often fail to the bard as the bard to them), there would only be love. I merely put the case as a comment on the assertion we sometimes hear that if we have no poetry it is the fault of the poets, since the material always abundantly exists in human nature. Undoubtedly it does...
...confer the degree of Maser of Arts upon Albert Sprague Bard with his degree of Bachelor of Laws, cum laude, as conferred in June, 1892. To reappoint Henry Livingston Coar, instructor in German for the coming year; George Staples Rice, A. B. instructor in Sanitary Engineering, and Alexander Burr, M. D. V., instructor in meat inspection...
...Cycling Association has bard this year to give the college a to see a representative cycle meeting its own grounds. Almost double the number of last year's entries have been received and among them are four of the seven or eight fastest men in the country. Zimmerman is in England and Windle and Hoyland Smith are not yet fit. Of the four men who are down to ride, Berlo has a record of 2 min. 18 1-5 secs. for the mile and he finished first in a scratch mile at Worcester on Monday, doing 2 min. 25 secs...
Walt Whitman writes on "Old Poets." His article is so thoroughly decorated with parentheses that its appearance is as eccentric as a page of the venerable bard's former "barbaric yawp...