Word: heroical
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...tablets in the vestibule of Memorial Hall grow in their significance, there comes to us a desire to meet together and pay our tribute to those older sons of Harvard. To honor their memory, to feel again their enthusiasm, and to catch if possible some of their high, heroic spirit of self-sacrifice, the college held last year a simple service on Memorial Day in Sanders Theatre. The sentiment of that occasion left no doubt as to the question of continuing the custom; and therefore a like service will be held this year. Invitations have been sent to those graduates...
...meeting of two worlds"; the old world of chivalry and romance was then passing into the modern world, and to Scott it was given to gather up the picturesqueness of the past of Scotland and hand down to us in his poems and his novels, the history of the heroic deeds of the North from the time of Robert Bruce and William Wallace. It has been said that Scott was a dull boy but nothing can be farther from the truth. He was early driven by lameness to seek occupation different from those of other boys, and he turned...
...persecuted the Hugenots in Francel. Because they knew not the time of their visitation they laid waste their country, destroyed life, and ended by driving out the most useful branch of the French people. We are just beginning to realize what good is coming to us from the heroic efforts of those in our own country who saw their opportunity and in taking advantage of it, submitted to all the evils of a cruel civil war. History is full of such examples...
...truly heroic life, is there not something more than human? We can estimate pleasure, but who can say how much it is one's duty to do this or that? The difference between truth and falsehood is immeasurable; one can't take an intermediate stand. A mother's love is limitless; it gives all and lasts forever. Was there not a divine element in the death of Sydney Carleton, and though but fiction, what a lesson it should teach us! Should we not in our lives include divine elements? Emerson well phrased it in the following aphorisom: "Don't leave...
Early in the 12th century translations of French Chansions de Geste begin, - the earliest, Konrad's Rolandsliid, about 1130 and rapidly follow Heinrich von Veldeke, and 'Courtoisie.' The attraction of this poetry led soon to a revival of the German heroic legends. The 12 century saw also the Celtic legends, which had come to be in Northern France the chief vehicles for conveying chivalric ideas, pass into Germany and became highly attractive to the Germans. Soon after narrative poetry after French models began in Germany, lyric poetry also began, showing the influence of both France and Provence. It seems...