Word: poems
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...verse, which seems a new departure in college poetry; follow the editorials, exceptionally strong and much to the point. A very amusing story, "Aloft on the Dorothy Bell," comes next, and then a selection of Daily Themes. "At Night-Time" is a somewhat dog gerel rendering of a German poem. Next is an essay on "Count Tolstoi and Modern Realism," in which the writer, after saying that Balzac tried to crush the life out of French prose - Balzac, the one man to me who can understand and describe the emotions of a woman - that the French revolution "overthrew...
...Bliss Carman, Sp. S., had a poem in a recent number of the Critic...
...March number of the "Atlantic Monthly" offers a table of contents to its readers which for high literary excellence is unexcelled. There are presented: A poem, "Fancy or Fact," by James Russell Lowell; a paper, "Our Hundred Days in Europe," by Oliver Wendell Holmes; and an article by Horace Scudder on "Longfellow's Art." "The Second Son" is continued, and Marion Crawford offers three new chapters of "Paul Platoff." Mr. Bliss Carman, a special student at Harvard, writes a pleasing poem, and there is a satisfactory review of the new novel, "Agnes Surriage." On the whole, the number...
...Daniel Clark. For the Crown, Mr. Winkler, for the defendant, Julian W. Mack in his own behalf. The attendance at the trial was large and the interest unflagging. A jury of twelve was sworn in without a challenge, although their ignorance was appalling, but two having read Hood's poem, and nobody, Bulwer's novel of "Eugene Aram." The afternoon, from three to five was consumed in the presentation of the evidence of the case. The court reassembled at 6.30 and listened to the arguments of both counsels. At 7.25 Justice Beal delivered his charge, which was lucid and admirable...
...Ernest W. Shurtleff, a former member of this university, editions of whose poems have been published by the "Old Corner Bookstore," and Lothrop & Co., of Boston, and E. P. Dutton of New York, all meeting with success, was initiated as an honorary member of the Signet on Friday evening. He read an admirable historical poem, entitled, Judas Maccabus, which was awarded a prize last year at Andover Theological Seminary. Mr. Shurtleff is one of the contributors to "Songs of Harvard...