Word: tennyson
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subjects for the second Junior forensic are as follows: 1. Should cabinet officers be held responsible to Congress? 2. Is Tennyson's poetry likely to survive its own times? 3. Should the personal provisions of testators be respected? 4. Which has more influence on a nation's development, its great men, the original character of its race, or the peculiar circumstances of its climate, soil, and geographical situation...
Seniors. - Blair: Political Morality, G. W. Curtis. J. T. Chamberlain: The Glove, Schiller. Knapp: The Execution of Sidney Carton, Dickens. Littauer: War, Sumner. Lombard: How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, Browning. Mason: The Revenge, Tennyson. Montague: Strafford's Defence, State Trials. Pinney: The Diver, Schiller. F. W. Taylor: My Duty as a Statesman, Lamar. H. O. Taylor: The Last Ride Together, Browning. Tufts: Soliloquy of Hamlet, Shakespeare. Vinton: Joan of Arc, De Quincey. Hunt: The Society upon the Stanislaus, Bret Harte. Wheeler: On the Impeachment of Judge Prescott, Webster...
Juniors. - Carey: Speech of Mark Antony, Shakespeare. Clapp: Charles Sumner, Curtis. W. W. Coolidge: The Fall of Babylon, Da Ponte. Donaldson: The Last Soliloquy of Dr. Faustus, Marlowe. Evans: Rebuke to Cowardly Lords in 1852, Tennyson. Hale: Recreation, Helps. Hyde: The Gifted, Carlyle. Mercer: Speech of Henry V. before Agincourt, Shakespeare. Perkins: The Cloud, Shelley. Poor: The True Grandeur of Nations, Sumner. E. Robinson: The Rights of an English Subject, Erskine. Sargent: A Legend of Bragance, Adelaide Procter. Swayze: Boston and the Old South, Phillips. C. L. Wells: Immediate Emancipation, Brougham...
...habit of marking library books. We would go a little farther, and condemn that of marking even one's own, for this reason: book-marking is like dram-drinking and only total abstinence can safely guard us against excess. Anybody who has seen a young lady's copy of Tennyson, and searched in vain for an unmarked page, will recognize the evils of indulgence. Of course when it comes to marking other people's books, the injury is moral as well as mental...
HERE are the titles of some recent articles in our exchanges: "The Cynicism of Culture," "The Influence of Doubt," "Tennyson's In Memoriam, "Tennyson's Sorrow," The Superstition of Composition," "Music among the Greeks," "Jeremy Taylor," "The Character of Banquo," and "Carlyle's Sartor Resartus." Our readers may form their judgment by these: "ex pede Herculem...