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...feel that their progress will be anxiously watched. It will excite the same feelings of pride as if we were actual spectators of their efforts. We all wish them the best of good luck and shall feel grateful indeed if they bring victory to Harvard. This would be a glorious triumph against odds, for certainly a season never opened more inauspiciously. But even if no such pleasure is in store for us, we shall all of us be deeply thankful for the loyal efforts of Captain Vail and Coach Perkins and the rest of the crew. Each one of them...
...reality, is too deeply a part of the University to be lost. It may be modified to suit more advanced ideas, but that is all. We believe with "Jack," if only from an instinctive feeling, that our present position will prove to be the "outcome of a glorious past, the natural prelude to a more glorious future...
...productions of this kind we have fit members of the great body of English literature. His language was direct, emphatic, incisive, - there was an impetuous flow about his verses, every line struck a blow, every epithet had its significance, every simile its effect. Dryden's satire was both glorious and terrible...
With the reign of Elizabeth there came a time of sound government when men had leisure to look around them. England was then taking an active part in the affairs of the world. The reformation was bringing before men's minds new and glorious thoughts of freedom. Above all, America was being explored and settled. It was a new country. People felt that antiquity had not exhausted everything, but that here were new fields for investigation opened to them. It was a time of great and general animation such as was very favorable to poetry...
...college, he never made any attempt for honors. He entered into a brilliant circle of friends, chief among them Arthur Hallam, and passed four glorious years. While there, he published his first book of poems, and though these were immature, yet they bespoke the coming poet. In 1833 and again in 1842 further poems were published. A new poet was recognized. The wealth, variety, sentiment, and music in his talent charmed the nation. Some of his poems were graceful, with dainty turns and quaint conceits; some shook off all elaborations, and sprang from the very soul of the poet...