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French 5 will begin soon a book of modern French poetry...
...lecture comparing modern and Grecian athletics takes place today at 12 o'clock, at Sever...
...text-book, Mixer's "Modern French Poetry," will be used in French 5 on Wednesdays, in place of Cherbutiez's "Count Costia," concluded next time...
...this water-logged, wet chicken, Dircaean-swan-ism; this mental somnambulism, that dares everything and is conscious of nothing; this yellow sunflower, frilled shirt, plastered hairism! Shade of John Gilpin! Is this dilute extract of rose water and weak bombast, this white livered sentimentality, the consummation of our boasted modern culture? We are humbled in sack-cloth and ashes. We only hope that in edging his way into fame, Mr. Wilde will not dislodge from their niche of honor any of the old worthies we have been accustomed to venerate as the lares of the temple of fame...
...Bowdoin Orient sings the praises of the stylograph as follows: "Among modern inventions there is none which is more likely to influence poetry and literature, as well as practical life, than the stylograph. Poets have always looked with peculiar veneration on the pens which have enabled them to transcribe their flowing thoughts, and the stylograph is a much more proper object for poetic inspiration than the vulgar goose quill or commonplace steel pen. A more poetical name might, perhaps, be invented for it, and we can easily imagine a poet addressing an ode to his stylograph, and introducing some simile...