Word: poem
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...celebration will begin at three o'clock on the afternoon of June 5, and will end with a dinner on Thursday afternoon. The oration will be given by Rev. Alexander McKenzie, the poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the arrangements are under the direction of Rev. E. G. Porter, all three of whom are graduates of Harvard...
...substantial part of the supper was disposed of, called on Mr. Quincy, who had been appointed orator of the evening. He delivered his oration, which was a witty one, with a clear voice and good manner, and was several times loudly applauded. Mr. Pellew, the poet, then read his poem, which was very good. Mr. Hooper, the toastmaster, was next asked for a toast, and proposed "The Institute of 1770, which we all like, and Freshmen cry for," to which Mr. Griswold replied...
...translations are easy enough to write, we had noticed this in the Lit. as particularly good, and do not doubt that those who read it in the Courant, without knowing it to be merely a reproduction, will think it more remarkable than we did. The Courant speaks of another poem in the Lit. ("A Counterfeit Presentment") as "a work of care and difficulty to the writer, which those only who have attempted this style of verse can appreciate; and naturally unintelligible to any whose ears have been attuned to the jingle of the Mother-Goose School." At the risk...
...Tripod has a leading article on the "authority of conscience" which is quite as unintelligible as the leading poem, "What Abideth," one verse of which...
...cannot resist giving two quotations from a poem in the Tufts Collegian, entitled "The Wreck...