Word: musee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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FRESHMAN CREW.- 3.30 o'clock: Proctor, Palmer, McConnell, Dickerman, Brigham, Adams, W. Lawrence, Gerrish, Henderson, Pettingill, Swain, White, Harper, Ivans, Muse, Brown, Pease, Burton, Hibee, McFadden, Hoxie, Sachs, Stillings, Daly...
...Melos, said Mr. Robinson, has been a subject of dissentions and discussion since its discovery. First of all the name has been finally settled upon as Melos by all archiologists. Then, too, it has been contended that the statue is not of Venus, but of a nymph, or a muse...
...have received a word of praise from Henry James. He is as dangerous a model for young writers to follow as could well be found. He has so many subtle things to say that he often becomes deeply involved in the saying of them. In "The Tragic Muse," Mr. James's best known novel, he divides himself from the rest of the literary fraternity by his enthusiasm for the art of acting. In this work he has not only given us a comment on the theatre, but also a living character in the person of the actress heroine...
...only change of importance in the French Department is the addition of Dr. Muse to the list of instructors. French 7 will be omitted, to be resumed...
more than perhaps any other poet of equal endowment, he is great and surprising in passages and ejaculations. In these he loses himself, as Sir Thomas Browne would say, in an O, altitudo, where his muse is indeed a muse of fire, that can ascend, if not to the highest heaven of invention, yet to the supremest height of impersonal utterance. Then, like Elias, the prophet, "he stands up as fire, and his word burns like a lamp." But too often, when left to his own resources, and to the conscientious performance of the duty laid upon...