Word: concord
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...most ambitious poetical effort we have met with this week, is an ode to the "Concord River," in the Tuftonian. The general effect is good, though marred somewhat by bad epithets and one or two unnecessary inversions. We would like to know what color a "blushing violet" is, and it seems as if the wrong deity had the adjective in the line...
PROFESSOR B. PEIRCE will lecture before the Concord Summer School of Philosophy...
...have before us three school papers: the Horae Scholasticae, from St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., the Vindex, St. Mark's, Southborough; and the Critic, Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven. The first of these is well-managed and well-written, which is more than can be said for a great many of our college exchanges. The Vindex would do better if it confined itself to matters of interest to the school, instead of discussing the "Mode of Electing a Pope" and kindred subjects; and if it did not try to be very funny. As a rival of the Burlington...
...loudly against the utter weariness, staleness, flatness, and unprofitableness of the poetry in college papers. Such poems as the "Thunder Tempest" and "Music" in the Bates Student are fair samples of our average mediocrity, and the result is to make a piece such as the "River Concord," in the Amherst Student, shine like a sun by mere contrast; the poem alluded to, however, is really remarkably good, contrast apart...
...compelled, early in the morning, to "run and worship God" on week-days; nor on Sundays to "attend morning service and remain during the entire service," the World fails to see why we Harvard citizens should be obliged to do so. It blames particularly Emerson for "coming down from Concord to oppose a motion for the discontinuance of morning prayers," and James Freeman Clarke, "the liberal of the liberals," for "protesting against removing the requirement of attendance on public worship. Both these gentlemen," it continues, "are doubtless aware that however much a student is required to attend chapel, . . . . the requirement...