Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...youth and riper years. To carry on this broader study it is necessary to arrange the plays in true chronological order, which the Society proposes to do by an examination of the gradual change in Shakspere's versification through his life; and, for any one anxious to understand the poet, it cannot fail to be interesting to read the familiar plays under the light thrown on them from time by the papers and discussions of this Society. It is pleasant to know that the founders of the Society do not intend to confine its benefits to the number, necessarily small...
Some may have heard rumors of the exhibition of Turners, to be given in Boston during the last two weeks of April. We understand that the preparations are nearly completed, and in our next number we shall hope to give full particulars as to the place of the collection, its time of opening, and so forth. Turner's name is familiar to many in this country through the books of Mr. Ruskin; but our opportunity of studying his work by the light of Modern Painters has been restricted to a sight of the Slave Ship in New York...
...were much surprised to learn that an impression has spread to some extent among graduates that the columns of the Magenta are not open to them. This we understand has been inferred from the style of our heading, which says that the paper "is published by the students of. Harvard College." Now, publishing a paper is a far different thing from contributing to it, and this wording was never meant to preclude contributions on pertinent subjects from outsiders, particularly from graduates of the College...
...many of the students understand the possibilities of enjoyment afforded by a Saturday afternoon in town? Don't be frightened by the conundrum, or astonished at the seeming absurdity of the supposition that Harvard students can be ignorant in such a particular. I am serious, and honestly think that to the majority Saturday afternoons are a bore, or at least are not made the most of. Unless the theatre or opera is attractive, not one man in ten knows what to do with himself. Billiards, and a dinner at Parker's or Maison Doree; is the unsatisfactory result...
...tremble before the scientific knowledge of the Berkleyan. One of its poets comes out this month with a poem on the Mauvaises Terres, and freely slings in flowing rhythm such terms as "Cenozoic twilight," "sutured skull," and "circumambient walls . . . . with alkaloid surcharged." Now, we can understand such an expression as "sepulchral tomb," - indeed, the meaning is only too plain, - but when it comes to "Oreodon" and "Titanotherium," - if this goes on, new metres will have to be devised with special reference to the scientific dictionary. We recommend this poem as a syllabus to all who elect Natural History...