Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hostess ventured some quiet words reminding him of the deep personal affection in which he was held the wide world over. His morning mail lay beside him. She pointed to the pile of grateful and adoring letters. 'Ahyes,' he said, 'but they say Tennyson has written a perfect poem." Millet's early life - his parents and birth, his childhood and the development of his artistic temperament - is told in an interesting article by Pierre Millet, his younger brother. With this paper is an engraving by Closson of Millet's painting "The Sheep-Shearers." At intervals for the last few years...
...complementary tickets for the opening exercises of the intercollegiate tournament. These will take place on Tuesday, December 27 at 2.30 at the Berkeley School Armory, No. 20 West 44th Street. Mr. George L. Rivers Columbia '68, will make the introductory remarks. J. Walter Smith, Harvard '94, will read a poem, and the presentation of the cup by Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, Yale '56 will follow...
...lifeless; and the "story" of the number is a delicate character-sketch, but lacks a visible cause for existence. The verse is much better than the prose, however, especially the "battle song" by Herbert Bates, ('90). It is to be hoped that so good an innovation as a "graduate poem," so to speak, will be continued. The editorial on the growth of the college is reasonable, and just...
...Woodstock Poem," by P. H. Savage, comes on the whole, very close to nature and to the air of the wilderness, and in spite of one or two inexcusably rough lines, the verse is well-managed and successful...
...main features of the revised requirements are, first the introduction of Herodotus as a requirement in the place of Homer, although Homer will be accepted as an equivalent; but is expected gradually to supercede Homer entirely, reserving it for reading in college as an epic poem; second, the introduction of the elements of one modern language, either French or +++erman, as a requirement; third, the alterations of the English requirement to an exercise in English prose composition based upon specific authors; fourth, the introduction of maximum and minimum entrance requirements; the minimum requirements are the old requirements simplified and slightly...