Word: allinson
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...after two stanzas, omitting the final quartrain. Mr. Whittlesey's "Lines" deal gracefully with a familiar form of the pathetic fallacy. Mr. Auslander's "Forsaken" is pretty, but not quite so pretty as it should be, Mr. Simpson's Imitation of the Rubaiyat" is creditable but not valuable. Mr. Allinson contributes two poems, "Die Gotterdammerrung" and a sonnet. The first is chiefly in unrhymed pentameters, with nine-syllabled verses interspersed. Its workmanship is imperfect, and its lines tend to monotony; yet it is impressive in its dignity. His sonnet "Umbra Naturae" again shows either carelessness or radical doctrine...
...renders it superfluous to repeat. There will even be those who, remembering the result of the presidential straw-vote in October, will discount the verdict entirely as reflecting the very opposite of the opinion of the country which is so unfortunate as to lie beyond the Connecticut. BRENT D. ALLINSON...
Dispatches from Washington consisting of transcripts of testimony given by Anti-National Defense representatives from various colleges indicate the activities of those opposed to universal training. Undergraduates from the University, Yale, Columbia, and Amherst, were among those who testified. While the majority of these speakers including B. D. Allinson '17, president of the International Polity Club, stated that they were not representing the sentiment of the majority in the colleges from which they came, the fact that the only testimony given by college men was opposed to universal training tended to place those colleges on record as so opposed. Allinson...
President.--B. D. Allinson '17, 52 Mt. Auburn street...
...echoes of the Presidential election still rumble through the latest issue of the Advocate. An editorial nobly upholds the national point of view against partisanship, and Brent D. Allinson '17, in a tone of exalted idealism, seeks to show a parallelism between the "bloodless revolution" of 1688 and that which seems to him involved in the victory of Mr. Wilson. One need not be convinced in order to envy the writer his power of seeing our present-day policies in such a haze of glory...