Word: moving
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...essential part of the new poetry was its spirit, not its metre. Each age is different from all those that preceded it, and is filled with new thoughts, which need a new poetry for their expression. Poets must not shut themselves up away from the world, but must move in the heart of affairs; they must share in the life-blood of the general heart in order to express the whole spirit and burden of their times. The poets of the Elizabethan age took the common idioms and jokes of the people and worked them into forms of enduring beauty...
...that any one who has been in Harvard College three months should show so little the effect of its reforming influence as to feel no shame at such a display of native boorishness. I sincerely hope the Board of Directors will exert their authority and compel the fellow to move whether he is willing...
...seems that the faculty gets a grim satisfaction by worrying the consciences of those men who spend what we deem a perfectly legitimate holiday at home. What systematic and persistent complaint can do we have tried to do, but there are those whom not even the fates can move...
...took two hundred years to outgrow it. It makes a curious record, this story of the Puritan popes who wanted to be president, or wanted a professorship for self or son, or wanted a certain policy pursued, a course of study introduced, or a certain theology adopted. Affairs now move with an amazing absence of friction. Personal relations are charmingly free from constraint. We can have all courses of study desired, and the thelogies are welcome...
...incurred throughout the entire winter. The advantages of the plan are too obvious to need discussion, and the universal desire expressed each year that we might have a skating pond nearer college than Fresh Pond, is a sufficient warrant for the undertaking of the plan. The proper organization to move in the matter is without doubt the athletic association. The officers of this society have always been prompt to respond to the expressed wishes of its members, and I am sure the present demand will meet with no denial from them. Any ideas that any one may have...