Word: solemnizes
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...anything in a spare hour between two classes. He sits down at his desk and sharpens a pencil, breaks it and tries again. Then he picks up a newspaper--often last week's--and reads a headline here, an advertisement there, and deciphers the cartoons with wrapt attention and solemn mien. Next, he opens a magazine lying at hand and reads half a story. Wearying of that, he curses in a bored sort of way and turns back to the pencil which he has again broken while tracing designs on his blotter. Then he consults his watch and decides...
...encouraging sight. It may be said--and we hope truly--that as Harvard, unlike many colleges, is in the midst of a great urban community, where every form of relief is highly organized, the undergraduates are doing their part as individuals in that community. If they 'appear untouched by solemn thought' while all the rest of mankind is stirred to its depths, is it not time for some leader of Harvard sentiment to rouse them to an active participation in the work now most needed in the world? It would have been finer to stand among the first...
...music is of sacred character, the type exemplified in Chembine, Mozart, etc., is recommended in Mr. Boott's bequest. The committee suggests as texts Milton's "Blest pair of sirens" ("At a solemn music"), and the "Sanctus" or "Benedictus" of the Roman Catholic mass. Compositors may, however, choose any words that they wish...
...narration or description. Mr. Burlingame and Mr. Smith, writing on very dissimilar subjects, both show the habit of observation and analysis and some ability at realistic portrayal. The description, by the latter, of "The New England Grandmother" is straightforward, simple and homely; so much so, in fact, that the solemn verse quotation with which it concludes has a serio-comic effect which seems hardly in place. Mr. Burlingame's story perhaps depends too much, for its impression, on the squalid and the revolting; and his narrative is inferior, on the whole, to his description. Mr. Rogers's account of "Griggs...
...aggrandizement. It was entered on as a solemn duty. The soldiers entered the ranks reluctantly and left gladly. They served in the spirit of the Shakesperian soldier, who said 'Cheer me on that we may reap the harvest of peace from this one act of bloody war!' They found treason and left loyalty, and made the name of American citizenship the proudest passport that a man can early throughout the entire world...