Word: everetts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...WATERMAN,Assistant Superintendent.The first ten of the Everett Athenaeum from the class of '85 was elected last evening, and consisted of the following : Brandt, Colony, Edgerly, Hansen, Hill, Holland, E. Howard, King, Sawin, Webster...
...Everett Athenaeum of '84, holds a very important meeting tonight. All who can are requested to be present...
...long satirical poem, curiously called "The Ad," which runs throughout the volume and which is credited to Everett, is conducted with much spirit through its long course. I cannot describe it; it is rambling and incoherent and professedly a local satire. It is in heroic couplets, and Mr. J. Lowbard is its titular author. To display its character I need only quote parts of the argument of one book, which treats of "The arts of rising in the world - Marriage - Poetry - Dolphins - Geese - British Cruisers - Spithead - Aphorisms of two kinds, sharp and flat...
Hilliard & Metcalf, Cambridge, published the Lyceum, as they did later the Register and the Collegian. The paper appeared semi-monthly and had as chief editor Edward Everett. In their "Address," the editors proclaim it to be the object of their paper to present the "many valuable hints suggested in a course of general study, which can only be published with propriety in the miscellaneous collections of a periodical pamphlet. . . . It is to be the publick common-place of its contributors." And then in further detail they explain what subjects will especially be treated: American literature; discussions of the "various subjects...
That the first promise of their prospectus is fulfilled can be seen by the titles of the first three articles following this introduction: "Classical Learning," "The Prejudices of Literature," and "On Mathematical Learning." On page 14 appears a translation of Horace, Lib. 2, Ode XVI., by Everett, "prompted by a passionate fondness for the poetry of Campbell, and a wish to clothe the beautiful notions of Horace in the beautiful verse of the author of the 'Battle of Hohenlinden.'" The first stanza reads...