Word: devotedness
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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...
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...
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.
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.
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...