Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...appointments of President Francis Walker of the Institute of Technology as orator, and of Mr. Morris Thompson as poet, of the Phi Beta Kappa exercises for this year, are very satisfactory. President Walker is too well known to need any words of explanation, and his scholarly attainments admirably fit him for the place of orator. While Mr. Morris Thompson is not so well known, perhaps, he is nevertheless a man of marked ability and learning and will make an excellent choice for poet. Certainly these two positions could not be filled by better representative...
Once made poet laureate, Dryden's career as dramatist closes and he now turns to satire. In satire his genius lay, and in his productions of this kind we have fit members of the great body of English literature. His language was direct, emphatic, incisive, - there was an impetuous flow about his verses, every line struck a blow, every epithet had its significance, every simile its effect. Dryden's satire was both glorious and terrible...
...Puritan in his youth, royalist in his manhood, papist in his old age. Yet after all the man was so easily influenced that it was almost impossible for him not to follow the lead of the majority. Whatever may have been his character as a man, certainly as a poet he gave with every advancing year added proof of strength, maturity and nobility. His genius was rather receptive than creative; the seeds that were planted in his mind bore their best fruit latest in life...
...following class day orators: President of the Day, Irwin Mc. D. Garfield, of Mentor, O.; Marshals, L. M. Starr, New York City, and R. G. Mead, of Sing Sing, N. Y.; Orator, J. D. Murphy, Mt. Stewart, P. E. I.; Ivy Orator, L. G. Balliett, Lockport, N. Y.; Poet, A. K. Willyoung, Buffalo; and Prophet, Charles T. Ennis, Lyons...
...second chapter of the "Cosmopolis City Club" by Washington Gladden. "The Voice of Tennyson" is one of the best articles in the number. It is written "to record a memory" not to enter into any trivial gossip over Tennyson's life and works. Mr. Van Dyke describes the poet as he reads "Maud" and shows us how singularly beautiful and strange this reading was. He says, "It was not melodious or flexible, it was something better. It was musical, as the voice of the ocean, or as the sound of the wind in the pine-trees, is musical. There...