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...Somerville High School nine defeated the freshmen yesterday in a rather poor exhibition of baseball, by a score of five to four. The freshmen were wholly unable to bunch their hits and showed marked weakness in their fielding at critical points. The fielding and batting of Anderson were the only features in the freshmen's play, while Pote caught and threw well for the Somerville nine. The batteries were: Harvard '97, Gregory and Dunlop and Scott; Somerville High School, Teague and Pote...
...Tennyson and Browning, Mr. Copeland said, have done more than express the feeling of the moment. They have expressed the poetic feeling of the second half of the nineteenth century, just as Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats and Coleridge have done for the first half. From a standpoint of substance, rather than of form, Tennyson and Browning stand at opposite poles. Tennyson represents the spirit of science and law, while Browning represents the individual having his own way in spite of the law. In neither of them can we find the observation of nature and sympathy with it that Wordsworth...
...governs Tennyson. Even in "In Memoriam," an ode to a dead friend, who was far dearer to him than any one else in the world, we find a gradual swaying back to the spirit of law, until the personal disappears completely. The tendency of Tennyson is to glorify restraint rather than indulgence. He shows his great hero, the Iron Duke of Wellington who represents legal and just power, making head against lawlessness in the person of Napoleon. For this reason perhaps Tennyson has given us less of music and art, because it is the custom of the artist to follow...
...philosophers of that time, in that he did not care for fanciful syllogisms and high sounding logic, but he was a quiet man who did a good deal of thinking. He was known among his contemporaries as "The Ass." His biographer, after enumerating all his stupidities, ends his account rather curiously by saying, "he left many beautiful books...
...distinct ways. First there will be a lesson in the language itself. Paradoxical as it may seem, the Latin language is more thoroughly dead than almost any other dead language. Partly from the formal, serious, and matter of fact character of the people who developed and used it (or rather used and developed it), and partly from the manner in which it has been employed for the last thousand years, Latin has become a kind of monumental language, associated with epitaphs and triennial catalogues. It has ceased to be a natural means of expressing thought to English speaking people. Thousands...