Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...physics and astronomy in Harvard College, in 1755 one of the few eminent American men of science of the eighteenth century, states that the bricks from the chimney of his house, in Cambridge, the top of which was thirty-two feet from the ground, were thrown to a point thirty feet from the base of the structure...
Begins with a striking piece of blank verse, which seems a new departure in college poetry; follow the editorials, exceptionally strong and much to the point. A very amusing story, "Aloft on the Dorothy Bell," comes next, and then a selection of Daily Themes. "At Night-Time" is a somewhat dog gerel rendering of a German poem. Next is an essay on "Count Tolstoi and Modern Realism," in which the writer, after saying that Balzac tried to crush the life out of French prose - Balzac, the one man to me who can understand and describe the emotions of a woman...
...flag. But the faithful supe had secured the flag and made himself very scarce. The sophs could not approach through the barricade on the front seats. They tried to get in at the rear and at the side doors of the stage, but they met freshmen at every point. The freshmen were too numerous, and the sophomores were forced to swallow their indignation and endure their defeat like men. Then the freshmen, at the conclusion of the performance, marched up Chapel street 200 strong, defying the Sheff. juniors and Academy sophomores. But the matter will not end here. The sophomores...
...height of Greek art, with Pheidias, sculpture reached a point where the complete harmony between material and form was reached. Here the stone has been so completely vitalized, and life has been so masterfully monumentalized, that the eye is oppressed by neither, but delighted by both...
...Leahy's "Drama" still appears in fragmentary form. The selection in this number is inferior to that in the last, and a little ponderous. Mr. Leahy, although his command of figures and similes is perhaps his strongest point, could introduce fewer without harming his verse. These selections are interesting and in many parts exceedingly beautiful, but they suffer from isolation...