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...feeling for what is noble and distinguished gave his poetry style; his indomitable personality gave it pride and passion; his sensibility an nervous exaltation gave it a better gift still,- the gift of rendering with wonderful felicity the magical charm of nature. The forest solitude, the bubbling spring, the wild flowers, are everywhere in romance. They have a mysterious life and grace there; they are Nature's own children, and utter her secret in a way which makes them something quite different from the woods, waters, and plants of Greek and Latin poetry. Now of this delicate a mistress, that...
...baseball practice yesterday was on the whole the most satisfactory of the season. The base-running of the first nine was sharp, and Dickinson and Cook hit the ball in good style. Perry and Paine, the freshman pitchers on the second nine, were both very wild. Today the two nines will probably play a practice game. The men will go to the training table next Wednesday. The men played yesterday in this order...
...BAKER.ENGLISH 14.- For Wednesday, March 7, the reading in English 14 will be The Maid's Tragedy, Bonduca and , if possible, The Wild-Goose Chase. Members of the course will find Francis Beaumont, by G. C. Macaulay, very helpful in the work to be done on Beaumont and Fletcher...
...Gordon described his trip to Honduras and his visit to the old cities of the interior, whose remarkable ruins give some idea of the civilization which flourished there ages before the coming of Europeans to America. These cities, once so magnificent, are now overgrown by forests, inhabited only by wild animals, and many of them seldom visited by man. Mr. Gordon also told several anecdotes illustrative of the character and customs of the present inhabitants of Honduras...
President Eliot spoke first of the appropriateness of honoring the name of Francis Parkman in a place so closely connected with his memory as Cambridge. It was in the wild country on the north side of the city that there was born within him that strong love for nature that characterizes all his writings. Prevented by ill health from concentrating his energies entirely upon his vocation, he took up horticulture as an avocation and was eminently successful, especially in the cultivation of lilies and roses. Francis Parkman was the first professor of horticulture in Harvard University. He was also...