Word: gone
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...another month that benignant presence will have been gone from us for twenty-five years--a quarter of a century in which there have been many shifts and fluctuations in current taste in literature, and in which the competition of authors seeking popular favor has been keener than ever before. Many have had their little day of sunshine; few have outlived a single short summer; but all this while there has been no change in the hold of Longfellow on the hearts of men, and today bears witness to the truth of Lowell's prophecy that the next age should...
Most difficult of all to estimate is Mr. Wheelock's achievement in "Sea-Visions." The irregular metre and occasional faulty rhymes ("moan" and "gone," "saw" and "door") are disturbing. The overlapping phrases in the first line of each stanza, on the other hand, and the insistent refrain, "O thalassa, thalassa," are decidedly effective, and only fail to be completely successful, perhaps, from the fact that they seem a bit too consciously employed. These, however, are minor faults in a poem which, as a successful attempt to treat a great theme worthily, is decidedly unusual in undergraduate verse...
President Eliot, accompanied by Mr. J. D. Greene, secretary to the Corporation and to the President, left last night for Montreal, Canada, where he will stay with Mr. F. McLennan '79. President Eliot has gone to Canada upon the invitation of the Association of American University Men, and he will speak before the association tomorrow evening...
...Yale University, has concluded, after an exhaustive statistical investigation of the mortality among members of Yale teams and of the non-athlete graduates of the last fifty years, that the college athlete lives longer and is a sounder man in after life than the average graduate who has not gone in for athletics...
...some newspapers estimate it, of the last game is from a quarter to half a million dollars; and if half this sum comes out of Harvard pockets, was the game worth the price of the candle? This is for a single year; but how about the years which have gone to their desolate graves? These are questions that are running through the heads of thousands of Harvard's lovers just now. And how are they answering them? As they are sensible men they are doubtless answering them in a sensible...