Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Byron take his pen no more...
...reader as altogether unique - a matter for wonder and admiration in these days of laborious learning and little literature. Indeed, one may find in this early Harvard literature evidence that that revival in letters which was progressing so actively in England at that time - in the younger days of Byron and Wordsworth - had made its influence felt in America also, and was bringing about intellectually the same new renascence which occurred in England in the first half of this century. But the literary style of the eighteenth century still lingered about our college, and traces of the pedantic influence...
...most simple and taking kind. And if there appears, now and then, a little pedantry and almost "Western" heaviness, did not the discriminating editors of the Register show their good intentions and appreciation of the fit by adopting as their motto the classic phrase from Byron, "I won't philosophize and I will be read?" And yet, we take it, still in a measure we have inherited something of the style and frequent felicity of expression possessed by these predecessors of ours, and the traditional literary bent of Harvard is by no means lost today. The Register of 1827 lived...
...meeting of the committee appointed by the Junior Class to take action on the death of BYRON ELLIS BAKER, the following resolutions were adopted...
Whereas, During the past summer death has taken from us our member, Byron Ellis Baker...