Word: poems
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...John Fiske has been chosen to deliver the Phi Beta Kappa oration next June. Professor G. L. Kittredge will write the poem...
...very sad. His health was broken, his intellect impaired, his powers gone. In 1798 he returned to his faithful and affectionate wife. She nursed him with tender care until he died in 1802. His remorse for deserting her was great and has been touchingly treated by Tennyson in his poem, "Remorse of Romney...
...marks an era in the history of the Scientific School. It was decided to have a class day and also to hold a dance on Monday of Commencement week. Several orders of exercise for class day were presented and the following one was adopted: Cheering, Class Histories, Class Wreath, Poem, Song. The members of the class also expressed themselves in favor of establishing a high stand honorary society in Sheff. On just what lines the society will be formed is not yet known. It is certain, however, that eligibility for membership will not be based wholly upon past work...
...Holmes was born in Cambridge on the twenty-ninth of August, 1809, and lived in the old house which formerly occupied the site of the present Gymnasium. He prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy and entered Harvard in 1825. At his graduation he delivered the commencement poem, and was one of the sixteen members chosen into the Phi Beta Kappa...
...Holmes's deservedly great reputation in his profession was equalled and even exceeded by his fame as a writer of both prose and verse. While in college, he contributed largely to the Register, one of the forerunners of the Advocate. His first brilliant piece was the poem he delivered at the Phi Beta Kappa dinner after his return from Paris. The Atlantic Monthly first brought his name prominently before the public as the author of the "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," which was received with great favor. Since then his success has been uninterrupted...