Word: poems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...FRIDAY.Class Day exercises. Prayer by Rev. Francis Greenwood Peabody.- Oration by Franklin Elmer Ellsworth Hamilton.-Poem by Francis Sterne Palmer.-Ivy Oration by Francis Michael.-Ode by George Pierce Baker, Jr. Sanders Theatre...
...Advocate" appeared on Saturday and contains much good reading matter. "Auf Widersehen" is a well-turned translation of Heine's lovely poem. "The Morality of Tom Jones" makes one or two good points but is not very much of a literary production. Considerable skill is shown in the treatment of a sketch entitled "The Streets of Boston." "Banished" is a bright, humorous conceit. Of the two papers on Milton and on Goethe, the latter is decidedly the stronger. They are both treated in a rather cursory way and the ideas embodied in both essays would not suffer from greater elaboration...
...book is divided into five parts: Fair Harvard, Life, Love, Youth and Fate, containing poems ranging all the way from topical to sentimental, descriptive to despairing, Part I. is preceded by Dr. Holmes' merry poem, "How the Old Horse Won the Bet," dedicated to the "Advocate" ten years ago, and now reprinted for the first time. This alone would make the book valuable in itself, were it not already made doubly so by a verse of the lamented Loring, who "always mourned and always honored," still keeps his renown as bright as at his untimely death...
...that if the South can prove the truth of their premises about the sovereignty of the States that ratified the constitution, their stand in seceding would be justifiable. The paper is well worth a careful perusal, as it throws much new light on this well-worn theme. "Nature's Poem" is a delicate bit of verse, and expresses a pretty idea in highly artistic form. Mr. Palmer has also added much interest to this number by a well-written sketch of Ben Johnson's life works. Mr. Carman's "Willow Buds" appears to be a little labored, and lacks naturalness...
...sixth number of the "Advocate" will be out on Monday morning, having been delayed by Mr. Wheeler's illness. It will contain an article on Robert Browning's Literary Style, two stories, and the junior class poem, besides the usual editorials, light verse and items...