Word: containing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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NOTICE TO SENIORS.- Each member of the class will receive two lists of photographs tomorrow. These lists contain full directions for ordering photographs of different members of the class and faculty, and also group views and albums...
...Copeland began his lecture last evening by taking up in brief detail the lately published correspondence of Matthew Arnold, Coleridge, Edward Fitzgerald, Flaubert, and Stevenson. The Coleridge volumes contain the fullest record yet printed of the poet's life, the long struggle with opium, and an indolent and irresolute nature. Arnold's letters also are largely biographical by intention, since Arnold like Thackeray was unwilling to have any formal life of himself published. A good many dry and trivial details, as well as references to persons still living, might well have been omitted; and the finical hypercritical streak...
...letters of Edward Fitzgerald, said Mr. Copeland, come nearer the epistolary ideal than any of those in the list just enumerated. The late Alexander Dumas is reported to have said that a play should contain a picture, an ideal, and a judgment. One of these elements, the picture-said the speaker-should have a place in the ideal letter. It should also, if may be, contain an incident; and it should be composed with an exquisite union of correctness and ease. The letters of the poet Cowper are, on the whole, the best in the language, and Fitzgerald's often...
...Honor," by Austin Corbin, Jr., is a decidedly clever essay, though one cannot help feeling that the cleverness is misapplied. The first two paragraphs and the last seem to be written in a serious mood and contain so much truth in such a small space that almost every sentence amounts to a truism. The rest of the essay is written in a sort of flippant, serio-comic vein, which is out of place. Honor is too grave a subject to be flippantly treated...
...position seems to us a mistaken one. He argues that there is a great inequality in the length of the autumn, winter and spring terms, and implies that the vacation he proposes would remedy this alleged evil. According to his division of the year's work, the autumn term contains about twelve weeks, the winter term fifteen weeks, and the spring term less than eight weeks. It takes but little calculation to determine that the vacation he proposes would not change this inequality materially. If the vacation ended on April nineteenth, the autumn term would contain about twelve weeks...