Word: worked
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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MEMORIAL HALL begins to show signs of completion. The west vestibule has been scaffolded preparatory to putting up the stained glass next week. It is hoped that all the windows will be completed by the end of next month. The glass was procured in England, but the artistic work has been done by the Boston firm of W. J. McPherson and Company in a most complete and handsome manner...
Compare these with his more thoroughly original work, and though I yield a place to "Manfred," his imitations sink into insignificance. "Sardanapalus" can vie in many points with "Manfred." In the one a remorseful, despairing man speaks; in the other, an Eastern voluptuary. Though Byron excels in both, - and it may be objected that the comparison is not fair, - yet Sardanapalus, his own creation, allows him a latitude of development which Manfred does not. In "Manfred" there is no woman. "Sardanapalus," on the contrary, has one of the fairest types of Byronic poetry. Here his true spirit shows itself; that...
...outrage to college feelings, and probably the work of students themselves! Why are we called upon to deprecate the shameful act that was committed Wednesday night? We were in hopes that this spirit of irreverence had passed away, but the "leaven of unrighteousness" has shown itself in our midst, to bring shame and contempt on the students. It is but justice to say that these occurrences are rare; yet, when they do appear, they show a vandalism unworthy the lowest barbarians, and an existing undercurrent which it is our sad duty to notice. Have we not sufficient respect...
...work its ruin to the hateful...
...volume will be of imperial quarto size, i. e. eleven by fourteen inches, and bound in different styles. The work will be published only by subscription, and will be ready in June...