Word: odes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first rehearsal of the class song and ode will be held in Boylston Hall Thursday evening, June 8, at 7 o'clock. All seniors are earnestly requested to be present...
...cannot forbear thanking him [Dr. Thacher] for his well-timed defence of the character of his college, against the barefaced charges and insinuated imputations, which disappointed rivalry may well account for, but which nothing can palliate, and for which profound penitence only can atone . . A Latin and Greek ode in the Commons-Hall gave a classical air to the festivity of the entertainment; and a brilliant illumination and pleasant ball in the evening, closed the duties and the enjoyments of a day, which for its immediate interest and consequent effects will never be forgotten in the walls of Harvard...
...class of '84. His speech was well received. After another selection by the quartette Mr. Chapman read the poem. He made many amusing hits at various members of the class. The reading of the poem was interrupted by frequent bursts of laughter and applause. Mr. Mumford then read the ode amidst great enthusiasm. Then the toast-master, Mr. Goodwin, gave toast after toast, all of which received apt replies. The toasts were as follows...
That the first promise of their prospectus is fulfilled can be seen by the titles of the first three articles following this introduction: "Classical Learning," "The Prejudices of Literature," and "On Mathematical Learning." On page 14 appears a translation of Horace, Lib. 2, Ode XVI., by Everett, "prompted by a passionate fondness for the poetry of Campbell, and a wish to clothe the beautiful notions of Horace in the beautiful verse of the author of the 'Battle of Hohenlinden.'" The first stanza reads...
...which have enabled them to transcribe their flowing thoughts, and the stylograph is a much more proper object for poetic inspiration than the vulgar goose quill or commonplace steel pen. A more poetical name might, perhaps, be invented for it, and we can easily imagine a poet addressing an ode to his stylograph, and introducing some simile such as, that as he carried stored up in the treasury of his brain the poem which is to be produced, so the servant stylograph contains within itself the hidden reservoir from which, at his will, ink sufficient for the writing will flow...