Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...like it. Scrooge's ghost is not nearly so empty and formal and cold as an ordinary ghost; on the contrary, it is very amiable and warm and merry, and improves on acquaintance. Nor does Scrooge's ghost come slyly down the chimney and pass on like a shadow, for after all it wants to make friends and is always ready to go more than half way in doing so. And it always feels that it has a particular claim on the Yule-tide season...
...higher criticism is called to witness in our behalf at the outset, and the tail-piece is a convincing vision of prophecy fulfilled,--a fulfillment heralded by many a timely dig in the intervening pages at our "dearest foe." Apart from the local color cast upon it by the shadow of coming events, the number strikes us as no more or less than most Lampoons. Some of the jokes and poems are funny and cleverly done, but they seem no more appropriate to the Lampoon than they would be to a publication of similar end and nature in any other...
...never obliged to put forth all his powers. A man of means frequently fails, just because of that fact, to become a means for the highest ends. Occasionally crises come in which the Christ appears bearing the sword and demanding utter self-renunciation. No one here, almost under the shadow of Memorial Hall, can doubt it. Today, however the demand usually comes in a different form, namely, that a man shall keep his possessions that he may give himself, for there is a vast amount of work needing to be done in the world which is and probably always will...
...Symphony Hall this evening: Harvard Night. 1.March, "Cruiser Harvard," Strube 2. Overture, "Rienzi," Wagner 3. Waltz, "Estudiantina," Waldteufel 4. Husarenritt, Spindler 5. Overture, "Sphinx," Thompson '92 6. Selection, "The Title Seekers," De Golyer '08 Pi Eta Production, 1908. 7. Selection, "The Fate Fakirs," Sweet '08 "Pudding" Production, 1908. 8. Shadow Waters, Seeger '08 9. American Fantasy, Herbert 10. Waltz, "Jolly Fellows," Vollstedt 11. Fair Harvard. 12. March, "Up the Street," Morse...
...tenth number of the Monthly, which appears today, contains the following: "The Degree with Distinction", by T. F. Jones '06; "The Shadow-Lovers", by C. E. Whitmore '07; "The Virgin's Mountebank", by R. E. Rogers '09; "Marston Moor," by H. A. Bellows '06; "Varium et Mutabile", by S. D. Malcolm '06; "To the Day", by H. Spencer 1G.; "The Nature of Decadence", by H. A. Bellows '06; "Song", by R. E. Rogers '09; "The Silver Grey of Cedar Bluff", by W. H. Gibson '06; "The Meaning", by R. Altrocchi '08; "Sonnet", by C. H. Dickerman '07; Editerials...