Word: beholds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these amazing days, when we no longer respond to the sight of a friend's name on a theatre program with that emotional thrill compounded of surprise and righteous satisfaction at successful prophecy,--so commonplace a thing it now is to behold some vanished Tom, Dick or Harry's fame glowing above the play-house door,--it may be pertinent to ask, where are the Harvard Poets? In the past we sought them in the pleasant pages of the Monthly, and found them there, Moody, Mackaye, Carpenter, and Hunt; today they are gone, and the bubbling Castalian spring of college...
Brown comes to Cambridge with brass bands and cheering sections, flushed with the recent victory at Philadelphia; confident that this season's one ambition, namely, to defeat Harvard, will be fulfilled as surely as was last year's determination to overwhelm Yale. All Providence comes to Cambridge to behold the probable victory, knowing full well the exact power of the eleven tried and chosen...
...Behold! they come in view...