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...know Warren Harding well. They had a good many things in common, although the hard-working Senator from Indiana could never see the point of the Senator from Ohio's going out into a pasture to chase a small white ball from cup to cup. Mr. New was much fonder of duck hunting...
...Artist. Gilbert had an eye for the absurd, in government, in the Law, in personalities. He was never tired of mocking the foibles of the England he loved. But in this book he is represented as a sentimentalist gone wrong. He himself was fonder of his serious comedies than of his triumphant excursions into topsy-turvydom. He was never fully aware of the peculiar quality of his own genius. Up to the end, he rebelled against the critics who, he felt, were forcing him to don the cap and bells, which became him so well...
...entitled to hearty praise; the cheery, manly tone, the felicitous choice of descriptive terms, and the musical swing of the lines give it permanent value. "The Sound of the Sea" is a fairly successful experiment in rimed hexameters; one may object to the quasi-rimes "heaven" and "even," "fonder" and "wonder," as well as to the expression "memory of remembered faces"; but the verses are in general melodious, and the dreamy sadness of tone reflects one side of the effect of the sea-sounds. The other poetical pieces are creditable in thought and wording; they all show a good...
Perhaps "absence makes the heart grow fonder"; perhaps the Boston alumni are too near us to appreciate what means so much to the Harvard men of New York and other cities. Mr. Tupper has not found it so. Better for Harvard that our graduate organization is most complete in the west and south, where it is needed most; better still if it were complete throughout. Once broached, we feel sure the matter will not pass without further consideration; once organized, it will not lack for support...
...Flandran also appears as a writer of verse in two vigorous sonnets, both about athletes, for whom, in his latter work he has shown such a predilection. However, the story goes that the Advocate board in his day was fonder of crisp and witty prose and rather peppery editorials than of poetry, though it sometimes sat down--not without sarcastic comments--to grind out verses for the popular demand...