Word: poets
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Institute Supper will take place on Thursday. May 22, at 7.30 P. M., at Young's Hotel. Tickets can be obtained at 13 Holyoke from 11 to 12, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The officers are: S. Hammond, President; W. R. Thayer, Toastmaster; C. M. Van Buren, Orator; P. Evarts, Poet; J. S. How, Chorister; and Messrs. Sanger, Upham, and Browne, Committee...
...there are no men at Boston University. We acknowledge that the Beacon has proved conclusively that there are both men and women at Boston University. We should not say, however, judging from the last number of the Beacon, that those men and women were also ladies and gentlemen. The poet of the Beacon invites his inamorata to a promenade on the campus, which is the Boston University name for the Common. By the way, is it not a little inconsistent for a paper which has such a holy aborrence of a lager-beer saloon as the Beacon to take...
...following subjects have been assigned for the sixth Sophomore theme: Washington's Course in the Case of Andre; The Marking-System; What English Poet of this Century do you prefer...
...number than might have been desired, but still, taking everything into consideration, as large as could be expected. Mr. W. A. Slater officiated as president, and Mr. W. R. Thayer as toast-master. Mr. M. St. C. Wright was orator of the occasion, and Mr. C. T. Dazey, the poet; their efforts were highly praiseworthy and very successful. They were abundant in wit and in allusions, the peculiar significance of which was keenly appreciated. Nor was literary merit in any way sacrificed to these; both had their instructive passages...
...humblest of your slaves meant to draw aside the curtain of his being to you; but, although he has been silent while among these dogs of Giaours (whom may the Prophet roast in Gehenna !) he has not ceased to think of his Beeghaz, for how truly has our divine poet Hafiz* said...