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Matthew Arnold makes three appeals to the world. First, he is a poet, though to many persons he means little in this character. In his verse he cares only to sing of the beautiful things of tragedy and pathos, without trying to teach; while in his prose he is ever intent upon teaching. In his essays his great aim is to reform the Philistine. Another guise in which Matthew Arnold appears to us is as the gentle critic of pure literature; the reader and the commentator of the best things, which he wished to see prevail. In this character...
...Vesper Service this afternoon the choir will sing a Christmas Carol written by Phillips Brooks, the music of which was composed for the new hymnbook by Mr. Joseph Barnby at the request of Mr. Locke...
...programme will contain several compositions by Harvard men. The Glee Club will sing songs by R. W. Atkinson '91, L. S. Thompson '92, B. Carpenter '88, and J. A. Carpenter '97. The Pierian will probably play two pieces by Harvard men, one by F. C. Slee L. S., and the other by J. A. Carpenter...
...football management has reserved seats in section D at the game for the 'varsity glee club, which will sing some of the old Harvard songs as has been the custom in former years...
...that the masterpieces of whatever language are not to be classed by an arbitrary standard, but stand on the same level in virtue of being masterpieces; that thought, imagination and fancy may make even a patois acceptable to scholars; that the poets of all climes and of all ages "sing to one clear harp in divers tones;" and that the masters of prose and the masters of verse in all tongues teach the same lesson and exact the same...