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President Charles William Eliot, however, thought it would be a "counterfeit presentment...of very doubtful desirablness." In October, 1883, he admitted, "The young Harvard has every claim to a statue, but...what could be better, or more effective, than a Muse of History, of classic model, holding in her hand a tablet inscribed with the name of John Harvard...
Belgian Poet Pierre-Louis Flouquet suggested a remedy: a worldwide "poetry day" in May during which all schools would devote a solid hour to the muse, sending the students home to brighten their parents' drab, workaday existence with a bit of T. S. Eliot or Rabindranath Tagore. After spirited debate, Flouquet's motion was voted down...
...main fault was poor team work; this was almost erased in the second half showing Saturday. Outstanding attack-man Tom Whedon, who scored three goals and gained three assists against Tabor, will start the game along with Jim Dorsey and John Taylor. Bill Cormack, Tom Crump, and Rip Muse will probably get the defense nod. Dick Simmons will play in the nets but Pickett said that Simmons would probably share goalie duties with Steve Denhartog, starting net tender in the first two games of this season. The midfields will probably remain the same with Tim Anderson, Pete Palchas...
Hoping in the Gloom. Hardy's poems are limited in emotion; says Critic Blunden: his muse "lives too much in the frown." But the range of Hardy's subject matter is as wide as the range of his sympathies. In Reminiscences of a Dancing Man, a gay country dance turns into the dance of death; in The Respectable Burgher, an English gentleman who has been reading "higher criticism" of the Bible decides to turn to "that moderate man Voltaire"; in A Tramp-woman's Tragedy, the heroine teases her "fancy-man" into committing a pointless murder...
...calling you old Goody Muse...