Word: forme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...than any others in the collection. He had, perhaps, more poetic talent than any of the other contributors, and his sad fate, too, has led many to be interested in whatever he has written. Some of his poems are here, we believe, for the first time published in book form...
...very like the Greeks, as, in short, we are elegant, cultivated, and handsome men, with a decided taste for beauty of form, - and for good form, too, - and as we live together in small and purely democratic communities, sufficiently like each other in tastes and interests to be eternally at war, it really seems a pity that we have not yet adopted that admirable feature of Greek polity, - ostracism. It is my fortune to be a member of a certain society, in its elegance and refinement truly Attic, or, to use the current slang of the days of the Regent...
...spite of changes and the loss of their captain, the University crew is in a very favorable condition. Their endurance is wonderful, and a little more practice in small things, such as starting, will bring them into excellent form. The six to row at Springfield will probably consist of Bancroft, stroke; Bolan, 2; James, 3; Jacobs, 4; Thayer, 5; Morgan, bow. Immediately after the Springfield race these men will go to Saratoga and row in a six. The Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C. have decided to try a paper boat in the Saratoga race, and an effort...
...sciences unsurpassed by any American city; cruising around the harbor, saluting the "Marathon" off Boston Light, just from Europe, or scudding (with the lee scuppers under water and every inch of canvas set) under the brow of formidable forts, past the Halcyon, the Romance, or the Brenda, form an agreeable diversion to the ordinary routine of strict application to a stated task...
...gods and the giants. And then I imagine myself walking off, and saying, "So, so, Mr. Swiddle, you'll cut a dash in the streets of Athens no more; but off you'll go to the barbaric regions of the North, or perhaps to show your ideas of good form to the great king" - the monarchy of Persia, by the way, I shall compare to Yale; it was a place where loud-dressed and loud-talking people lived, who never accomplished much, and who wore jewels and charms of quaint, mysterious, and barbaric shapes. But, to come back...