Word: came
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...conspicuous for his love of music, which he called a "sacred pleasure," and he never missed the Sunday concerts conducted by Lamourdux. His charming conversation was another prominent characteristic and for fifteen years he received at his house on Tuesday evenings all the best poets of our time, who came to enjoy his strong and witty conversation. He was always better understood on such occasions than in his written prose, and this fact irritated him not a little. He always wrote, even the lectures he delivered in Belgium and England, in a very rich but difficult prose which gave...
...large number of candidates came out for the Glee Club last fall and from these a good club has been provisionally chosen. It has been backward in forming but should improve greatly during the next two months. The following men are still retained on the club...
...late in life that his well-merited success came to him. He published the new "Contes Cruels" and "Histories Insolites," but he died before he could reap the fruit of his labors leaving behind him a drama, "Azel," complete except for the finishing touches...
...certain carelessness and negligence which appeared in the writings of the leading men of this period brought about in 1850 a reaction which came at a most propitious time, inasmuch as the best propitious time, inasmuch as the best work of the romanticists has been completed. The two leading men of this reaction were Baudelaire and Leconte de Lisle. The latter is essentially an objective poet and his poetry is noticeable lacking in any personal lyric strain. He is a poet philosopher and something of an historian. Baudelaire maintained that inspiration consists of work and he opposed the romanticists' idea...
Conrad Magruder Patter 1L., died yesterday of pneumonia at the home of Professor J. H. Beale, after an illness of eleven days. Patten came to Harvard from Washington, D. C., and was graduated cum laude with the class...