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...Horace, and not the Crimson, is responsible for the moral of this Ode. Its publication was withheld until after the Semi-annuals, for fear that it might have a bad influence. It was expected that plank walks would be in the Yard by that time; but alas ! the powers of the University defeat the best-laid schemes. It is too late, however, to alter the verses...
Soon after a pale, thin man, who rolled his eyes and wore a Byron collar and long wavy hair, came in. He was a Poet, and brought an ode on "The Humanity of Nature." He hoped that the new paper would give much attention to poetry...
...most ambitious poetical effort we have met with this week, is an ode to the "Concord River," in the Tuftonian. The general effect is good, though marred somewhat by bad epithets and one or two unnecessary inversions. We would like to know what color a "blushing violet" is, and it seems as if the wrong deity had the adjective in the line...
...exercises were ended by the singing of the class ode, which was gracefully written by Mr. E. C. Perkins, of Boston. As a whole, the literary exercises of the Class of '79 were by far the best that have been given by any class at Harvard for many years, - certainly the best that have been heard by any one who is at present a student in the University. They were worthy of the class...
...Orator, Mr. Blodgett, - who was introduced by the Chief Marshal, Mr. Thayer, after the singing of the Ode, - struck a very happy vein in his discourse, and succeeded in keeping his hearers intensely amused...