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...stanza quoted illustrates what he means...
...prolonged applause at the end of President Eliot's speech had died away, R. P. Bullard '24, chorister of the Senior class, stepped to the platform, led the crowd first in a long and thunderous Harvard cheer with three "Eliots" on the end, and finally in the first stanza of "Fair Harvard", in which President Eliot, standing straight and tall in the center of the platform, joined his voice with those of the 2000 men before...
...picturing Lampy pere et fils conjures time to turn backward in its flight, and Mr. Noble '88, also breathes Etheu Fugaces in a seven stanza "praise of folly." Mr. McCord '21, and Mr. Alger '22, not yet having felt the sentimental stimulus of a class reunion, shape their sketches in the more or less familiar mold of modern college humor...
...again the mood of melancholy surges up-it is never very deep below the surface-and Fish draws three lovely veiled figures in black and silver for another wine-cup stanza, now of an elegiac turn...
...Santa Monica, Cal., a woman, twelve years ago tubercular, celebrated her 63rd birthday by swimming ten miles in the ocean and singing a stanza of The Star Spangled Banner just before finishing...