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...catchy swing to it and contains a great deal of meaty matter. The religion of the chief Romantic poets is expressed here in a nutshell, surely much better than they themselves could ever have done. How much more concise it is, too, than the "Ode to a Grecian Urn." Such an opinion, no doubt, might be expressed by some readers quite frankly and honestly--so seriously, in fact, that a writer in the Atlantic Monthly feels forced to suggest that every student be prescribed a course in the "Appreciation of Literature" an English 4, so to speak...
...Gardner's museum contains one of the best art collections in the country. The canvases and statues are all originals, and range in period from early Grecian to modern. The collection includes some very fine examples of Renaissance and early Italian work. The building itself is in early Venetian style, the greater part of it being made from imported fragments of an ancient Venetian place...
...Xerxes of Persia who caused a throne to be built for himself on the crest of the mountain overlooking Salamis so that he might enjoy the pageant of his conquest;--but it was a Grecian galley that carried the palm of victory back to the "wooden walls" of the Poloponnesus...
...revenge." This was the expression which Dr. Demetrius Kalopothakes '88, used as the key-note of his lecture on "Greece in the Peace Conference" at the Fogg Art Museum yesterday afternoon. Dr. Kalopothakes pointed out that all that Greece desired was the incorporation of some of the peoples of Grecian blood with the mother country. This would include Northern Epirus, Thrace, Westren Asia Minor, and the islands of the Dodecanese. Greece makes no claim to the territory of the hundreds of thousands of Greeks in Russia, Roumania, and elsewhere. Dr. Kalopothakes discussed the past and present wrongs which Bulgaria, Germany...
...offers us a suggestion to solve our perplexities by creating a Department of Athletics. Novel as the idea appears to many, it is, in reality, a very old one, revived in a certain measure, as is pointed out, by some of the Western colleges but tracing its origin to Grecian times, when gymnastics and the liberal arts had an equal part in a young man's training...