Word: cats
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From the spectator's point of view, though the cheering at the game was admirably enthusiastic and truly spontaneous, its organization was far from perfect. Further, the unsportlike jeers and cat-calls on the occasion of our opponent's misplays were beneath contempt; when we talk about the attempts of men of other colleges to rattle pitchers, we should remember that, while we do not professedly organize demonstrations for the purpose, we tolerate many individual offenders...
...charge of dilettantism if it rests on a basis of sound philological and historical scholarship. The Advocate hopes to see justice done Poe when the Puritan shall have passed--but why shall not justice be done him now? In fact there is a suggestion of Poe in "The Cat and the Mouse"--an effective story, with some thing of Poe's grim despair and situations full of horror; the tone is different from Poe's, but a result like his is gained. In "Will Ellis" a situation is described in which a tragedy is inevitable--the passionate protest...
...Copeland will deliver a brief address on Edgar Allan Poe in commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the poet, in the Dining Room of the Union this evening at 9 o'clock. He will also read "The Black Cat" and several of Poe's poems. "The Black Cat" is one of the most striking of Poe's short stories. The rapidity of the action, the deliberateness with which the most grewsome and revolting details are described, and the sudden climax unite in producing a story of tremendous power. The reading will be open to members...
...commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, Mr. Copeland will deliver a short address on the poet, and will read "The Black Cat" and some of Poe's poems, in the Dining Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 9 o'clock. The reading will be open to members of the Union only...
...edited "Letters of Thomas Gray" in his Senior year, and also Tennyson's "Princess" in co-operation with Mr. C. T. Copeland '82. Mr. Rideout was instructor in English from 1899-1904. In 1906 his first novel, "Beached Keels," was published. Since then have followed "The Siamese Cat," and "Admiral's Light...