Word: martial
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...some time. The verses at the foot of the picture would do credit to the heart of a more ambitiously serious sheet than the Lampoon. The sketch "As Others See Us," shows Harvard as viewed by the Boston newspapers, according to which the whole college is on a martial footing. The rest of the pictures and the short stories are of the usual order. The editorial criticises a very common error in the attitude of the students towards the baseball team...
...first eliminate some of the illegitimate motives for enlistment. The love of adventure is the first. The motive of the hunter is the second. Again, the hope of gaining "martial glory" can have no weight with a rational man. The common soldier and the ordinary line officer get little glory out of the war. No more legitimate is enlistment with the selfish hope of gaining political preferment in the future...
...Poems of Martial, Jan. 12, A. A. Bryant '97; Ausonius's Order of the Day, Feb. 23, E. K. Rand '94; Classical Influence on English Lyrics, Mar. 9, C. A. Weatherby '97; Selections from St. Augustine, Apr. 6, H. B. Huntington...
...certain to come before disaster-One blessing we have and that is boundless resources for building our defense. May we never be in that helpless condition that will oblige us to buy our ships and munitions of war abroad. In the midst of unexampled commercial prosperity, is not our martial spirit disappearing? Have not a strong tendency to vote business and literary capacity far above the profession of arms...
...ninth Symphony Concert in Sander's Theatre last night opened with Arthur Foote's Symphonic Prologue 'Francesca da Rimini." It is of the modern school, scored for full orchestra and original in the treatment of its themes, the first of which is almost martial in character. There are many good and pleasing harmonies, especially in the working out of the second theme, where the horns carry the air, accompanied by sweeping movements in the violins, and in the reverse of that, where the brass accompany the violins in heavy chords. There are many finely developed climaxes; and the whole piece...