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...choice of words is in many instances made with exceptional insight, as when he speaks of "jewels which had drunk of fire," or of the "dusty caravan," or again, "an old man, on whose brow the knots of pain were loosened now." No small charm is lent the rhythmic flow of the lines by the melodious oriental names used here and there. The poem is a very welcome departure from the abstruse and would-be metaphysical lines that fill the columns of college magazines. Mr. Bruce's success in this narrative style ought to encourage others to follow on this...
...Ghazel." by Mr. Berenson, hides a thought that might have been mad much of, under the cover of heavy language. The contrast between "numbing thought" and the "blithe heart" ought to be indicated by some change in the flow of the words. Instead of this a rather strained alliteration, "on shiny shallows of shoreless sorrow," so obtrudes itself upon the reader that the blitheness of temperament is quite forgotten. We cannot but regret that Mr. Berenson fails to find smoother expression for much of the vigor and beauty of his thought...
...doubt the truth of the old adage that "man should eat to live and not live to eat" when we consider yesterday's alumni dinner. When one can eat at the same board with such men as sat in Memorial Hall on November 8, 1886, and hear such a flow of eloquence issue from their lips as then was heard, then he may boldly say that he has "lived to eat." It is not often that even a Harvard graduate may listen at once to after-dinner speeches by President Eliot, President Cleveland, Sir Lyon Playfair, Judge Devens...
...henceforth driven, out of which no man is excluded, in and out of which men pass spontaneously and freely, give a true symbol of the way in which theology and life - what men have loved to call the sacred and what men have dared to call the profane - flow freely in and out of one another...
...much of our university history. In the multitude of our police regulations, in the thoroughly economical view of conduct which a great community begets, we feel too rarely the grand inspiration of righteousness as opening the way to truth; of character as the medium by which light can flow. "Blessed are the pure in thought for they shall see God." Are those words too lofty - too transcendant, to write on the new portal of the college yard? Would they be but a mockery of the baser thoughts of life, the lower ideas of learning which the wood contains. Alas...