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...Boston performances will be held on the evenings of April thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth with a matinee on the fifteenth, in Horticultural Hall. Tickets will be for sale at all the Boston Hotels, Woman's Exchange and at Thurston's. The list of Boston patronesses has not been completed. The first performance, for the graduates and their friends only, will be at the club house on April fourth...
...fifteenth century was the poorest in literature which England has known; for there was no poet worthy of note from the time of Chancer to the latter part of the reign of Henry VIII. This can easily be explained by the Law of Leisure. In a time of national rest, literature, and especially poetry, flourishes much better than when a country is thrown into confusion by political disputes. "Poetry", as Wordsworth says, "is the expression of emotion recollected in tranquility. "Now the age which followed Chaucer was one of unusual political activity. Either men did not write...
...fifteenth in England centurey was barren of literary advance. In Scotland however literature blossomed out freely. The times were less turbulent in Scotland +++ kings happened to be literary men James I, called the Poet-King, early showed the beautiful nature which afterwards wrote itself so finely in his great poem. James was imprisoned when young and while in prison he made a great study of Chaucer and wrote a great deal in imitation of him. His work is full of tenderness and affection and shows his love of nature and his reverence for good. Two humorous poems are ascribed...
PRESS DINNER. - If enough men sign the blue-book at Leavitt's before the fifteenth, the Press dinner will take place on Tuesday evening the 31st, the night after the Princeton game. The cost will be between $2.50 and $3 per plate. CRIMSON, Monthly, Advocate and Lampoon...
...HOPPIN, Sec. H. L. T. A.PRESS DINNER. - If enough men sign the blue-book at Leavitt's before the fifteenth, the Press dinner will take place on Tuesday evening the 31st, the night after the Princeton game. The cost will be between $2.50 and $3 per plate. CRIMSON, Monthly, Advocate and Lampoon...