Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Victor Hugo strengthens his images by his science of composition and by his rhetoric. As to his rhythm, no one has ever had a more delicate feeling for the harmony of the syllables of the French language. Now all these methods of Victor Hugo's can be imitated. It is for this reason that he has had disciples and that his methods of composition and rhythm have had imitators. For this reason he has exerted an enormous influence on the literature of the whole century. He has opened our eyes to new images and colors. He has opened our ears...
...Fogg Art Museum Lecture Room, Dr. Marcou delivered the second of the series of lectures under the auspices of the French department, on the subject, "Are French Poets Poetical?" The reason that many English speaking people, among them Emerson, have not believed in French poetry is that the rhythm is so essentially different from that of English verse. Poetry strikes the ear like a sounding board, and the ear of the English people is not attuned the proper reception of the French rhythm...
...voted to hand down the '97 yell to 1900, the only other proposition having been to give it to '98; why was '99 left out? There are three good reasons for handing down our yell to the Sophomores. The first is that the syllables ninety-nine fit the rhythm of the yell incomparably better than the syllables nineteen hundred; the second is that Seniors have been traditionally most in sympathy with Sophomores, Juniors with Freshmen; and the third is that the '99 Freshman crew by winning the class races performed the very feat for which '91 originated the yell...
...through the stroke ending in a hard finish. There is no lift in the stroke as there was last year but a horizontal drive throughout. The hands are shot away quickly and the body swing taken at the beginning of the recover. The stroke is longer and has more rhythm and swing than that of late Harvard crews. The average weight of the crew is one hundred and seventy pounds. The men are all in good condition. The crew rows twice a day regularly, the morning work being rather light and the hard rows taken about six in the evening...
...Commencement dinner. Charles Gordon Ames writes the obituary of William Henry Furness of the class of '20, who died in Philadelphia last January. "The Essential in Rowing," by R. H. Dana '74, gives as the reason for the failure of the recent Harvard crews the lack of "beat" or rhythm of stroke. In other words, the men do not pull together. The next article is on "Fay House of Radcliffe College" by Arthur Gilman. "A Group of Presidents," by Edward Everett Hale '39, accompanies the group portrait of Josiah Quincy, Edward Everett, Jared Sparks, James Walker and C. C. Felton...