Word: poems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Saturday's exercise in English A, Mr. Wendell delivered a short lecture to the freshmen on Browning, and read his poem "The Grammarian's Funeral...
...Monthly continues Mr. Carpenter's translation of Ibsen's "The Lady of the Sea." The third, fourth and fifth acts occupy almost the entire space of the magazine, and leave room for only a communication and a poem, besides the editorial department and The Month. It may well be doubted whether the editors are justified imdevoting so many pages to a work not original nor written by an undergraduate, even though it is of so great intrinsic merit as Mr. Carpenter's translation. This article is a great honor to its contributor and to Harvard, but it should not have...
...Tassin contributes a poem in blank verse, entitled "A Summer's Gift." It has the merit of being simple and unpretentious, and its metaphors are appropriate, though not especially original...
...best six writers in any two of the departments of English literature, rhetoric and oratory; a prize for oratory of $50 to the best speaker exclusive of the Baird men; a prize for delivery of $30 to the next best speaker; also a prize of $50 for the best poem and two prizes of $40 and $30 respectively for the best and second best written disputation...
...Short Essay on the Practical Uses of Political Economy" is a poem written in perhaps too light a vein to appear in the Advocate. It possesses positive merits in movement and in point, but shows hasty work...