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...obviously sincere endeavor to express something. Despite its patent technical shortcomings, it succeeds in a degree sufficient to justify itself. Precisely what thought underlies its compressed and complex sympathetic imagery one would, it is true, hesitate, even after a considerate reading, to pronounce with much precision. But the purport is clear enough, the mood is undeniably poetic, and it touches the imagination. Like much modern poetry it has the virtue of bringing agreeable to mind its literary ancestors, in this case the sonnets of Rosetti. It is to be regretted, however, that besides Rosetti's habit of luxurious concrete visualization...
...Sandys said, included primarily those of Florence, Venice, Naples, and Rome. The founding of the Academy of Florence by Cosimo dei Medici was one of the incidental and unexpected consequences of the Council of Florence, held in 1439. Foremost among the members of the academy was Politian, the general purport of whose poems may be gathered from a rendering of a single couplet: "O happy violets, which that hand hath prest...
...Judges that upon with-drawing after the debate to make their decision, they cast a written ballot (before consultation) in order thereby to obtain a working basis from which the final decision may be reached. Should there be doubt in the mind of any Judge as to the purport and intent of these instructions, the Association suggests that the Judges meet just before the debate with a representative of each college, and that in this conference an attempt be made to resolve any difficulty connected with the interpretation of these instructions. Respectfully submitted, RAYNAL C. BOLLING...
Captain Brewer of the football team has received a letter from Captain Thorne of Yale on the subject of arranging football games next year. The purport of this letter is withheld for the present at least, but a reply has been sent. The statement made in the New York Sun and Boston Globe of yesterday that the letter was to the effect that Yale would not play unless "Harvard apologized" has not been officially given out, either in New Haven or in Cambridge...
...meeting of the Athletic Committee last night it was voted to send a reply to the recent resolution of the Faculty regarding intercollegiate football contests. This reply has not yet been made public and its purport will not be definitely known until after its receipt by the Faculty, at their next meeting which will be held a week from today...