Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Purgatorio'," said Bishop Boyd-Carpenter, "is instinctive with the spirit of love and the redemption of man." It opens with a beautiful description of dawn, illustrative of the hope in Dante's breast, arising from the consciousness of a definite aim,--a pilgrimage for the attainment of the liberty of the soul...
There are two selections of verse in his issue, both of them rather above the standard. "Dawn", by C. G. H., is musical and imaginative, though the idea is far from now: Schofield Thayer's sonnets takes us up into the clouds--and if we are dropped with a mundane thump at the end, we must admit it is designed...
Once more 1912 is to swim into evidence. At peep of dawn tomorrow the lightsome flute will echo through the Yard; at 8 hatted, trunked and cupped the entire class will be gathered in front of Holworthy. A mighty band will lead the throng a rapid songful march and at 8.30 official cars leave Harvard square for Otis Wharf. At 9.15, the Griswold clears her dock for shores unknown, unseen. At Fort Andrew's pleasant pier unship in rank array! A short stroll down the wood-path then brings our travellers to the Field of Jubilee. Ball games, swimming, diving...
...birds and animals were diverting or fanciful to see--for a little while. The settings, too, caught the eye and pleased the waiting imagination, while in the play of the lights was sensitive feeling, accomplishing its design. The magnified poultry yard had its humors, and the waxing of the dawn until the full sunlight brightened the whole countryside was full of pictorial charm...
...clothe them in your cast-off garments. Charity begins at home, gentlemen. Shed a collar, a tear, or a shoe into the Brooks House collection-plate. It will not be wasted. The myrmidons of our little Napoleon, the graduate secretary of Brooks House, have been swarming since early dawn through the Yard tearing the draperies off the statues in Fogg, skinning the fur-coats from the squirrels, and even stripping the bark from the aged elms with pen knives...