Word: rarely
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fundamental idea, but defective in expression. The statement of what the writer has in view is made in the opening paragraph, but so obscurely, and with so little stress, that it is soon completely lost. And though possessed of a knowledge of his subject and an extent of reading rare in an undergraduate, the lack of unity due to this failure to show the connection between the main idea and the details does much to weaken and to lesson the value of the essay...
...Gaston Boissier, secretary of the Academy, said in his official report: "M. de Regnier is one of the leaders of that new school which pretends to do no less a thing than modify the form and the spirit of French poetry. Everybody recognizes that M. de Regnier has very rare poetical gifts; abundance and richness in images; amplitude and harmony of the period, a grace both provoking and natural that makes him admired even by those whom his boldness displeases." M. de Regnier was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor...
...Lowell library of romance literature, which has been obtained for the Warren House library, is expected to arrive in a week or ten days. The collection consists of about seven hundred books, some of which are extremely rare, and when added to the volumes on romance literature now in Warren House will be called the Lowell Memorial Library...