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...that his general outfit as poet was so complete as that of Dryden, but that he habitually dwelt in a diviner air, and alone of modern poets renewed and justifled the earlier faith that made poet and prophet interchangeable terms. Surely he was not an artist in the strictest sense of the word; neither was Isaiah; but he had a rarer gift, the capability of being greatly inspired. Popular, let us admit, he can never be; but as in Catholic countries men go for a time into retreat from the importunate dissonances of life to collect their better selves again...
...opportunities offered by the college, that it is unaccountable that men can be found who will still deliberately violate the confidence reposed in them. It is the new history library in Harvard that is the chief sufferer so far this year. One of the strictest rules of the departmental libraries is that books shall not be taken from the rooms. It is an absolutely necessary rule and an entirely reasonable one. Yet already this fall eleven books have disappeared from the history library, eight or nine of them within the past few days. Some of these books may be merely...
...undergraduates will do everything they can to help the senior Class Day committee in their work this year. The Class Day committee always has its hands full of important matters. The least in the way of courtesy which undergraduates can do to the retiring class is to make the strictest observance of all the rules which the committee deem necessary...
...will be a severe handicap for the Yale freshman crew to carry, as it is very doubtful if he can get into condition to row in the triangular race with Columbia and Harvard. The Theta Delta Chi, one of the most prominent of the Shef. societies, is under the strictest quarantine, and none of the members are allowed to go to recitations, for Capt. Van Huyck belongs to it, and most of the members are said to have been exposed to the disease through...
...grafts his own ideal on to his predecessor's relicts, so to say, and, to mix metaphors, the result is a very patchwork of policy - likest a crazy-quilt, Queen Anne's cottage, than any other product of the same human mind. Hence, too, the impossibility of the strictest economy. The bucket changes hands so often and so rapidly, and each carries it so differently from anybody else, that some water must be spilt e'er it reach the fire...