Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sixteen years after the extinction of the "Lyceum" there was no magazine to preserve the best literary work of the college. But in 1827 a new periodical called "The Harvard Register" was initiated into the world of literature. It was published once a month, its editors being members of the senior class. The motto adopted by its founders, Byron's famous dictum, "I won't philosophize, and I will be read," seems to indicate that the lesson of the failure of its predecessor had been learned and that ponderous articles would be eschewed. Among its more famous editors were...
...complex body of phenomena that constitute the history of Greek sculpture we can trace a great underlying struggle to establish complete harmony between form and matter, between the subject and the language in which it is expressed, between the thought and the stone. In the remnants of the Archaic Period we are oppressed by a sense of the obtrusion of the material on our vision, to the detriment of the idea to be expressed. Again, in the Period of Decline, brilliant though this decline must be admitted to have been, we are oppressed by the presence of the material...
...first of the great problems now is, how a people so imbued with desire for active, plastic expression of their thoughts as the Greeks were, could have cultivated sculpture for so many centuries without raising it beyond what our few remnants of the Archaic Period show it to have been. The explanation of this remarkable fact most likely is that the hieratic iufluence was strong in sculpture, and the traditional temple statues were copied and held in high esteem. These forms became stereotyped and lasting, and counteracted any tendency to emanciation...
...quotation you wholly misrepresent my idea. I entirely agree with you that if a student forgets to return reserved books, "a privation for a time may help to make him a little more considerate of others." I only suggest that a week is long enough (especially during the examination period) instead of the present month, which is one-seventh of the college year. There is only one more point that I desire to speak of I learned long ago to refrain from mixing sneering personalities with arguments. A student who protests fairly and moderately against certain usage may be "childish...
...bawl, and the seniors played hot Scotch on the College Green between Harvard and Massachusetts Halls, of how - but the rest we leave to the vivid pen of our historian. We make especial mention of this series of papers, in order that, at the close of this distressing period of the college year, we may assure ourselves that our readers will peruse something each day which by strictly impartial glorification of the college and its color will restore them from their present unwonted condition of blueness to their usual cheerfulnes...