Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ernest Rhys, in his address of last night, said that the 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...
...complaint about the wretched ventilation of the Library. This complaint is an old one, but for that reason it should be the more quickly answered. The ventilation of the Library is wretched; there is no doubt about that fact. And we think that it is more than it need be, even with the poor facilities for admitting fresh air that are now at its command...
...concerts of our musical organizations are not. The clubs have practiced regularly and the program of the entertainment has been well selected. It is evident, therefore, that the concert will be well worth having for its own sake. But an additional inducement can be urged if one be needed: that is, the receipts of this concert are to be given to the University Crew. The financial condition of the Boat Club has become known to all by this time, so that we need not again mention difficulties any more than to say that the help men give through the medium...
...college to win the trophy an equal number of times. The dispute which arose last year about the final disposition of the cup, was settled by the action of the convention last Saturday. But although the cup is virtually ours, still it does not follow that we do not need to work just as hard as ever to win it at the remaining contests...
...arrangement both of prose and verse all go to make up a very attractive-looking paper. Old Mother Advocate stepping out of her ancient crinoline and poke bonnet, and arraying herself in the garments which modern fashion demands, presents a very pretty and graceful picture, and she need not blush at it either. She has our sincerest congratulations, applause and good wishes on this, her first appearance under the able management...