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...only clever verse de societie that the book contains. Mr. Thompson's "Modern Lover," Mr. Cummings' "Pater Nostro Qui Es in Terra," and Mr. Lord's "Storm-Scarred Headland's," are beautiful example of how well Harvard undergraduates, young men of twenty, can express beautiful thoughts. Indeed, as Dr. Peabody says in his preface to the book. "In the volume published ten years ago are the early poems of some men who have already won a large and enviable reputation, of which that book contains the authentic prophecy. Like prophecy will be found in the volume now given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate Verses. | 5/25/1887 | See Source »

...made the appropriate gestures for him. All who refused to resign were expelled by the Admiral amid the hoots and howls of his fellow tars. An annual cruise wound up the year's festivities and was generally sailed in a tug-boat down Massachusetts bay to some headland, where all would disembark and have a chowder or fish dinner of some sort, the whole cruise lasting only three days and then the navy returned with state to Cambridge in a "barge." One year a large tent called the "Good Ship Harvard" was erected in the yard where Appleton Chapel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD NAVY. | 5/23/1884 | See Source »

White dots against a woody headland grim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SEA VIEW. | 6/17/1881 | See Source »

...bold headland that o'erlooks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THREE CROSSES. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

Three lonely crosses crown that headland bold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THREE CROSSES. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

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