Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...greatest objection, however, is the effect that such an arrangement will have on the attendance. Few if any can be expected to prefer the class to the 'varsity game. There would be little inspiration to the elevens to hear the loyal members of the classes of '93 and '94 cheering vociferously for Harvard on Jarvis, while a few little muckers alone stood on the side lines on Nortons and watched the struggle between the Seniors and Juniors...
Next year a new course in English Composition, called English 22, will be given by Mr. Gates. It will be open to those who having obtained grade C in English A, prefer it to English B. Attendance will be required three hours a week in the class room and the work will count a full course...
Dowden and other Shakesperian critics, have divided the range of the poet's composition into four periods. I should prefer to divide it into five, as follows: 1586-97 - the period which we will designate as marking the Romeo-Proteus-Biron mood. It is Shakespeare's lightest period, when the moral tendency is not really settled. The second period is from 1597-1603, marking the Jacques-Hamlet mood. The melancholy Jacques is a preparation for Hamlet. During this period, most of the sonnets were composed. Dur-the years 1603-1609, Shakespeare has returned to Stratford. This is his tragic period...
ENGLISH B.For themes 9, 10, and 11 the following subjects are suggested as suitable. These suggestions are intended merely as guides to choice of subject. Students remain free to choose any suitable subjects they prefer...
...supposed that all tastes will prefer a prose Dante to the Dantes of Longfellow or even Cary, but to the reader who is at all familiar with the music of the Italian Dante it is hardly to be doubted but that Professor Norton's will be the most generally satisfactory English rendering. Such a reader in the vividly reproduced sentences of the great poem will have suggested in his own mind the melody of the Italian...