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...collection of rare copies of various works of Coleridge and Words worth is now on exhibit in the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room of the Widener Library. The collection includes first edition copies of "Kubla Klan", "Christabel", "The Frlend", and "Remorse"; the title page of "Remorse" is covered with writing in the author's hand. In addition there is a page from Coleridge's note book containing recipes for making home-brew...
...affirmed without doubt that interest in the success of the chess team has been subordinated to a less intellectual interest in the successful issue of the annual football game with Yale. In many ways this attitude is unfortunate. Chess was in vogue among the polite countiers of Kubla Khan when the game of football was played with a rough stone, kicked about the wild British moors by half-naked tribesmen. And chess will remain a noble game when the last goal post has rotted and the last pigskin has burst. To make chess less than football is to make...
...could fancy during our waking hours the visions that flit through our minds when asleep! Why, we should all be poets. Charles Lamb was mortified by the "poverty" of his dreams, and envied Coleridge, who at his will, could conjure up airy domes and pleasure houses for Kubla Khan and Abyssinian maids, to solace his night solitudes, while he, Lamb, could not muster a fiddle. And so he concludes that there was nothing inspired in his own poetry. I must confess to having felt the same mortification. There is my friend C., who has wonderful visions in his sleep...