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Word: devotedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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As we have before remarked, some of the shorter poems have serious faults, but they are only natural ones that experience would surely remove. In general there is a healthy imagery, a delicious freedom from that morbid, sickly perversion of aestheticism that is so much sought after by writers of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "EXETER, SCHOOL DAYS AND OTHER POEMS." | 6/20/1882 | See Source »

Iowa, it is stated, has so many colleges - almost thirty - that they have all been kept more or less weak, not one of them advancing to the rank of a thorough university. This ridiculous multiplication of colleges is a crying evil in other States as well as in Iowa. If...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 6/17/1882 | See Source »

Professor Henry Morley, having devoted much of his life to the exploration of literary history, now prophesies that in the near future a great intellectual figure will arise, who will mark the opening of a new era of thought and literature throughout the world.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 6/12/1882 | See Source »

Amherst did not play the Dartmouths at Amherst last Tuesday because the faculty considered it an improper way to spend a day devoted by the government to the commemoration of America's dead soldiers.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 6/6/1882 | See Source »

While he was understood in college to be a general reader, and more especially devoted to the Muses, he never allowed himself to come to the recitation room without thorough preparation. I have some knowledge that he found more difficulty in mastering the hard problems in the higher branches of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LONGFELLOW'S COLLEGE LIFE. | 6/3/1882 | See Source »

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