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...disapproval of this sacrilege against tradition. Two hundred undergraduates, attired in ancient Greek costumes and carrying rose bowls, in imitation of Greek, vases, paraded through the ton despite the cold weather. In the midst of the procession marched a student in the garb of a Greek priest, carrying an urn of red hot ashes, as an emblem of cremation. At the head of the procession was borne a long streamer of white and blue, the Greek national colors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OXFORD STUDENTS MOURN LOSS OF REQUIRED GREEK | 3/5/1920 | See Source »

...more conventional plea, "In Defence of Verse Form," though less bizarre, shows in its frequent graceful lines more promise of actual power. Timotheus' lyre and Pope's lines on Atticus do consort incongruously enough with Hudibras and Keat's urn and the other members of this cento; yet, though the poet's head as well as heart be "poor-rhyming," he vallantly says what he thinks. New wine, if strong, should not be put in old bottles, but when weak, it may gain flavor from the less...

Author: By P. W. Long ., | Title: Key Note of Monthly Evanescence | 12/6/1916 | See Source »

...clock this evening in Sever 11, Mr. Copeland will read from Coleridge, Keats, Scott and Shelley. The selections will include "The Skylark," the "Ode on a Grecian Urn," a passage from "Marmion" and "Kubia Khan." The reading will be open to members of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Copeland's Reading Tonight. | 4/10/1900 | See Source »

...Copeland read the opening of "Hyperion," the sonnets "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," and "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"; the odes "To a Nightingale," "To Autumn," "On Melancholy," and "On a Grecian Urn"; "Fancy," "Lines on the Mermaid Tavern," "Robin Hood," and "Bright Star Would I were Steadfast as Thou...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Copeland's Lecture. | 3/18/1896 | See Source »

...lecturer stated briefly the general character of "Religio Medici," "Vulgar Errors," Urn Burial," "A Letter to a Friend," and, the most fantastic of all Browne's works, the "Garden of Cyrus." He commented upon the Latin origin of much of Sir Thomas's writings, upon its quaintness, its dignity, and-when it is at its best-the solemn music of its cadences. The distinguishing qualities of seventeenth century prose were brought out, or rather suggested, by a rough comparison of Browne with Bacon, Ralegh, Hooker, Isask Walton, and Jeremy Taylor, who is Browne's only equal in his most splendid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Copeland's Lecture. | 2/7/1896 | See Source »

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