Word: epigrams
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college life in the early fifties told by a series of letters that are supposed to have passed between Mr. Arthur R. Forbes and his mother, sweetheart and chum. Incidentally others take a hand in the correspondence. The story is replete with the play of fancy, wit and epigram, and enough philosophy to give it ballast...
...program for the occasion, on four broad pages, is of course entirely in Latin. On the front page, below the seal of the University, is an epigram in heavy Roman type, announcing that the performance is in honor of our fathers, the "embattled farmers...
...rhythm suggesting the graceful evolutions and music of the ball-room. One or two slight errors of rhyme are noticeable, but they are pardonable in consideration of the wealth of poetic diction, delicacy of description, and aptness of similes which characterize the whole poem. "Tomorrow" is a meritorious epigram...