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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...their form took fixed shape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A POETICAL ASSAY. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

...desire to remind our readers that the fair of the G. A. R. opens next Monday in Lyceum Hall. It will offer unusual attraction to students in the shape of a handsome bat, which is to be given to the Harvard ball-player who receives the most votes. Let us all rally to the support of our friends! Then, again, our votes should certainly secure the silk banner to "Cambridge I," that company always first at fires and always courteous and obliging to students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 10/24/1873 | See Source »

...With a shape so undefined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINES. | 10/10/1873 | See Source »

...high-sounding words in inappropriate connections. It is a melancholy fact that this school, if we may call it such, has found its chief supporters at Harvard. In marked contrast to it, is the school of the wild, the metaphysical, the intensely poetical poets, who commune with their shape-teeming grates, and draw deep thoughts from their beer-mugs. The poets of this school are carefully excluded - in their wild moods - from the papers of the Eastern colleges; but in the free and unbounded West they flourish like so many green bay-trees, and rack their brains for metaphors which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE POETRY. | 6/13/1873 | See Source »

...modern schools of art-the French and German, for example-we find much of good, but fail to discover any lofty devotion to the cause; for the money-getting mania of the nineteenth century rules even men of genius, and much rubbish is cast upon the world in the shape of carelessly executed work. Still, we here find much of the highest excellence, and the better understanding of technicalities gives men of moderate ability many facilities for success. But art as an educator and an active power in the elevation and refinement of mankind no longer makes itself felt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ART IN THE MODERN ATHENS. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

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