Word: loved
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic! Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!" To-day such words are only partly true of Harvard, though less true of any other college in our land. Yet if we are to have that feeling of love and reverence for her, which the Englishman has for Oxford, she must become, in some sense, a "Queen of Romance" to wage war against the sordidness around; she must become a "home of lost causes, unpopular names, and impossible loyalties...
...work of Harvard poets. The work of our poets is the model of the western college poetasters and is therefore simply another example of our increasing greatness. As such, let us consider it for a moment. Of course we have differentiations of the poetic sense. We have the love ditty, the laboriously elaborated scholastic exercise, the philosophical sonnet, the frothy nothing, and the pessimistic snarl. A great portion of the writing is naturally the direct outcome of affectation, much of the rest from an ambition to shine as a literary light. But here and there at rare intervals we catch...
...attempt a slight analysis of our poets and their work. First in favor is the amorous versifier. He sings in the abstract and therefore for all. His "Genevieve" is our "Genevieve;" in the beauty and grace of his love we see the ten-fold greater beauty and grace of our love. And so we applaud him to the echo and he walks before us with an added sense of his power and genius. And we steal his lines and post them as an offering to our love, no longer his. With pedantic pen and labored toil B. sings...
From these few examples of translations it is quite evident that the attempt to find a love story in the German was very general. The pronoun, "sie," is quite as suggestive and inspiring as our own "she." Perhaps the translations tell too well the tendencies of youth...
...world bought the magazines as our little college world does, they would be better than gold mines to the publishers. We are interested in all the contents; in the clever stories, serious discussions, and love ditties even. No doubt many of our college mates will be editors and contributors before long. Some indeed have begun to contribute already...