Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Class Day offices are of two kinds: First, those that are filled by men who are peculiarly fitted for the duties of their positions, as, for instance, the offices of poet and orator; secondly, those that are filled by men whose services to the class and to the University make them worthy of the highest honors which the class can give. Now it is obvious that if this is the basis upon which officers are to be elected, a man's being a "society man" or a "non-society man" should not enter into consideration. Each candidate should stand before...
...advantage of putting whatever is written in it at just such a distance as is needed for a proper mental perspective. No doubt this strangeness, this novelty, adds much to the pleaure we feel in reading the literature of other languages than our own. It plays the part of poet for us by putting familiar things in an unaccustomed way so deftly that we feel as if we had gained another sense and had ourselves a share in the sorcery that is practiced on us. The words of our mother tongue have been worn smooth by so often rubbing against...
After all, I am driven back to my Vergil again, you see, for the happiest expression of what I was trying to say. It was these shy allurements and provocations of Omar Khayyam's Persian which led Fitzgerald to many a peerless phrase and made an original poet of him in the very act of translating. I cite this instance merely by way of hint that as a spur to the mind, as an open-sesame to the treasures of our native vocabulary, the study of a living language (for literary, not linguistic, ends) may serve as well as that...
...Overture, "Poet and Peasant." Suppe...
...promenade concert in Music Hall is as follows: 1. Coronation March, Svendsen. 2. Overture, "Sakuntala," Goldmark. 3. Waltz, "Wine, Woman and Song," Strauss. 4. Selection, "La Fille de Madame Angot," Lecocq. 5. Prelude, "Lohengrin," Wagner. 6. Valse Caprice, Rubinstein. 7. Le Dernier Sommeil de la Vierge, Massenet. 8. Overture, "Poet and Peasant," Suppe. 9 Waltz, "Toujours on Jamais," Waldteufel. 10. Selection, "Mikado," Sullivan. 11. Polka, "Violonta," Knecht. 12. March, "Fatinitza," Suppe...