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...once said musingly: 'I should like some time to feel as good as Briggs really is, "and therein he voiced the sentiment of all men who have come to know Briggs. And what a host they are." Harvard men, here and there, read Mr. Everett's lament in the press, read also the statement of Dean Briggs-"I have been teaching long enough." Pursing their lips, they declared that the Dean's statement, for all its simplicity, was disingenuous."Trouble with Lowell," not age, they averred, was the real reason for the retirement of Dean Briggs. They...
...Lament for Owen Roe O'Neill...
...proud towers will crash down. Woe to Wotan." Shaken by this awful utterance, Wotan gives the ring to the Giants, forthwith leads the gods over a rainbow to Walhalla while through the brassy progress of his going rings a sound of far despair-the cry of the Rhinemaidens who lament, with sad throats from the depths of the river...
...latter, for it is a sorry truism, known even to a Freshman, that man gives hostages to fortune in monogamy, and even in polygamy. . . . But we digress. What we meant to say was that in this communication to the CRIMSON we were only acting up to the tradition of lamenting the institution of divisional examinations for Seniors. The early siege of Spring will partly excise this early lament. But you may rest assured that we are merely starting the ball (or "bawl") rolling, and that from now on there will be a flood of such Senior sonneteering...
...depths to which Ireland has sunk since the establishment of the Free State with horror; Ireland's former troubles seem like pale grievances. Mr. Ervine, traveling between Kingston and Cork, said he discovered among the people "bitterness of disillusion, great discontent, deep pessimism about the future, frequent lament over the departure of the British." Dillon declared expressively: "The old Irish Party has been accused of bossing, but, my God! I never thought that I would live to see what is taking place today under an Irish Government. When we look back on the days when we were oppressed...