Word: mood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Everything about us this year favors and justifies the second, the typical college mood. There is no reason now why any man should see a dark cloud over the University, no matter how many he may fancy about himself. Last spring brought us victory in baseball and a creditable record in rowing and general athletics. While this was going on the authorities and friends of the University were making plans for enlarging the equipment of buildings and teachers and increasing thus the usefulness of the institution. We see the outcome of their efforts in the new buildings which are actually...
...portrait of the poet for the frontispiece. The article is full of a number of amusing anecdotes and many extracts from his letters. One anecdote characteristic of the man is as follows: "Once he was found in the library of a Boston friend, silent and sad, in a mood not usual to him Seeking to cheer him, his hostess ventured some quiet words reminding him of the deep personal affection in which he was held the wide world over. His morning mail lay beside him. She pointed to the pile of grateful and adoring letters. 'Ahyes,' he said, 'but they...
...stirred to his very soul by the sorrows of life." An exceedingly odd effect is produced in the first movement by leading the mind gradually on and on till it demands a climax and dropping it just where the climax is expect d. This looks like a mood for occasional playfulness in the composer, a mood not at all inconsistent with the greatness of his genius. This playfulness shows itself again in the last movement. Here again the work of the orchestra was masterly...
...often experiences in these days to review anything like the Christmas Century. One has difficulty in finding phrases to express the pleasure of an hour or two's perusal of the magazine gives him. There are so many good things, and all in so happy a holiday mood, that one is at a loss where to begin...
...minds of men half-mad with disappointed passion. His impatience of conventional life, his lack of interest in concrete character, and his intense subjectivity, mark him out closely akin to the Romantic poets, and as not having passed beyond the Romantic point of view and the Romantic mood in any such way as Browning, for example, passed beyond them. He was like the Romantic poets, too, in the fact that it was to nature he turned to find escape from the crude actualities of every-day life; and it is probably through his share in the great Romantic work...