Word: ravenal
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...raven croaks too-long...
...reciter of our forefathers ? the reciter magnificent ? the lady of the awe-inspring brow and grave yard contralto who tore The Raven to tatters on the slightest provocation, the cadaverous youth who was so comic delivering Farmer Corn-tassel at the County Fair ? these, with the hansom-cab-driver and the professor of penmanship who drew little birds with flowing scrolls in their beaks, are rapidly passing into oblivion. Alas...
...story of Bartholow is human matter fit for the pen of James of Meredith not unlike "Modern Love" in theme and manner but Meredith devoid of ornament. Bartholow, celebrating liberation of soul and intellect, discovers late the treachery of the liberating Raven "a resident savior domiciled", serene, a hypocrite redeemed by understanding. The woman, Gabrielle, whose tragedy is just a foil for Bartholow's reveals how superficial insincerity can stultify a spirit over-prone to casual conformity, until it dies unnourished. Like a "confidant" the other character--perhaps the post--is an incongruous philosopher who talks a Latinized American appropriate...
...being determined by lot: Daniel Webster--His Genius and Character, Edward Everett Josiah David Segal '21. The Spell of the Yukon, Robert Service William McHenry Keyser '20. The Artist's Secret, Olive Schreiner Joseph Turkel '21. An Ode of Dedication (1917), Hermann Hagedorn Charles William Eliot, 2d, '20. The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe Malcolm Howard Dill '20. The New World--To the People of the United States, Lawrence Benyon Benjamin Isadore Sperling '21. The Death of Rodriguez, Richard Harding Davis Frederick Clifton Packard, Jr., '20. On Resistance to Great Britain. Patrick Henry Bung-chen Chen '21. Fuzzy-Wuzzy, Rudyard Kipling...
...being arranged by lot: Daniel Webster--His Genius and Character, Edward Everett Josiah David Segal '21. The Spell of the Yukon, Robert Service William McHenry Keyser '20. The Artist's Secret, Olive Schreiner Joseph Turkel '21. An Ode of Dedication (1917), Hermann Hagedorn Charles William Eliot, 2d, '20. The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe Malcolm Howard Dill '20. The New World--To the People of the United States, Lawrence Benyon Benjamin Isadore Sperling '21. The Execution of Rodriguez, Richard Harding Davis Frederick Clifton Packard, Jr., '20. On Resistance to Great Britain, Patrick Henry Bung-chen Chen '21. Fuzzy-Wuzzy, Rudyard Kipling...