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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...writing of "Sagesse" in 1880. His existence was two fold, - either spent in debauchery and sensual crimes, or in meditation upon the delights of mystic religion. He was essentially a personal writer, and we can not know his works well until we know the man himself. His greatest service to French verse was in the music be added to French poetry. He was thoroughly artistic, and usually full of painstaking care though his works are very uneven. His verse is always frank and free from all taint of hypocrisy...
...battery candidates were started on light exercises with wooden dumbbells in preparation for the heavier work of the coming weeks. They were also given general directions as to their diet. The pitchers are still using straight balls entirely, the greatest attention being given to ensuring good control of the ball...
...real field of undergraduate fiction, which is undergraduate fiction, which is undergraduate life. The first story in the present number, "Dalton's Awakening," deals with emotions and situations utterly beyond the scope of the author. No amount of "realistic" phrasing can cover the gaping breaks in the plot. The greatest philosophers and moralists have wrangled over the problem upon which this story is based, and the solution given here besides being inadequate, is morbid. The effect left by the story is one of mawkish sentiment...
...have very attractive quarters. Neither did it have anything like the proper equipment. Then again the professional instructor did not understand the work very well, nor did he fall into the spirit of it, so that such crews as did got out received no coaching at all. The greatest difficulty of all, however, lay in the fact that in the same house, and standing side by side with this club, were the class crews. These class crews were made up of supposedly the best material in the classes, and therefore at the head of rowing in the College. The class...
...afternoons and evenings which are "free to most of us" and which conceivably would be spend in the club, shows nothing but the writer's misconception of the purpose and function of the Harvard Union. The men whose frequent presence in the Harvard Union is necessary to its greatest success are not men who can often afford an entire afternoon or evening; they are men who will most frequently drop in between whiles, for a few minutes relaxation before or after settling down to a lot of work, or attending to other interests. The very life of such a club...