Word: expression
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lately printed an interesting scrap of gossip about a Harvard man. "The Messrs. Howe and Co. of London, found on a book stall an American book of anonymous verses, which they reprinted under the title 'Pirated Poems.' The English reprint has run into the twelfth thousand, and the publishers express a desire to become acquainted with the author and to share with him the profits arising from the sale of the book. The poems are witty, philosophical, graceful, and altogether delightful. We congratulate the Messrs. Howe and Co. upon their good taste," continues the Sun, "and are pleased...
...Wool Club will after its greatest treat of the season, a talk on the Responsibilities of Power, by Hon. W. C. P. Breckenridge of Kenlucky. Everyone has read the wonderfully fluent speeches which this man has delivered in Congress, and for a chance to hear him we have to express our thanks to this, the only club in college devoted to a political principle. On Wednesday, Professor Royce will give his twelfh philosophical lecture, the last but one, and Thursday, the Christian Association announces a talk by Dr. Brooke Herford. It will be altogether an extraor dinarily valuable week...
...Some Views of Acting" by Salvini express his views of emotionalism in dramatic are, his divergeuce from Coquelin's "mechanism" and sympathy with living's feeling of his part. "Franklin in Allegory" owes its chief interest to illustrations of old prints, "Laurels of the American Tar in 1812" is also lavishly industrated...
Harvard has beaten Yale at football. This is all that it is necessary to say. We cannot express all that it means to Harvard, and do not feel called upon to undertake the task; every one knows how years of work and years of study have been required to put such a team in the field as that which has just defeated an eleven that Yale was proud to call the best New Haven had ever seen...
Harvard University wishes to express to Captain Cumnock all the admiration which is now his due. For four years Harvard has watched him, each year with increased interest and approbation, and when he took charge of the eleven, his zeal made everyone more at ease. Confidence in him was not misplaced. Last year an eleven was brought together which opened men's eyes, but this year Captain Cumnock sent a team against Yale which is a complete revelation to the college world. Nobody knows how hard he has worked, but everyone is sure that everything that Harvard...