Word: mood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...relate, it is not to be compared with the first number. But that is not saying it is all bad, by any means; in fact there are some very good things in it. The editorials it is a pleasure to read. They are written in a happy mood and are in their way charmants. To speak the truth we do not remember to have read undergraduate editorials more entertaining, for many a long day - although of course, our memory may be poor. At any rate, they are well worth reading. The leader, it is confidently believed, expresses the views...
...number deals with the proposed building for the religious societies. Of the verse "Verses" is poetical in thought but not quite so in form as it shows perhaps a little crudeness in composition. Two sonnets, "Art in Man" and " Music" are the best, written in a thoughtful mood and well executed...
Dowden and other Shakesperian critics, have divided the range of the poet's composition into four periods. I should prefer to divide it into five, as follows: 1586-97 - the period which we will designate as marking the Romeo-Proteus-Biron mood. It is Shakespeare's lightest period, when the moral tendency is not really settled. The second period is from 1597-1603, marking the Jacques-Hamlet mood. The melancholy Jacques is a preparation for Hamlet. During this period, most of the sonnets were composed. Dur-the years 1603-1609, Shakespeare has returned to Stratford. This is his tragic period...
...Boston graduates have no tickets whatever except the few they secured at yesterday's sale and the few they will get through friends in college. A little later, when some of those who are most disgusted with the foot ball management now have worked themselves into a more cheerful mood, perhaps they will be willing to see things in a slightly different light. Then they may be interested to know that the Yale manager was forced to give the Springfield authorities 1350 tickets while our own manager got off for 1000, and thus was able to put 2100 grand stand...
...midst of the New Year's Day festivities. Moreover there are a great number of men who live at long distances, very many of whom have no, or only one, recitation on Saturday, but who nevertheless must register on time, and then spend their Sunday in no amiable mood thinking of the pleasant time they might be enjoying but for this unhappy regulation...