Word: allinson
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wish to dismiss the collection as one without merit. A few poems shine out: "Thy Heart," by Sigourney Thayer of Amherst, "To Josiah Royce," by Brent Dow Allinson of Harvard; "The Winds of Day and Night," by Russell Lord of Cornell; "Unidentified," by Marie Louise Hersey of Radcliffe. Best of all I like "Rime of the Cross-Cut Saw," by R. S. Clark of Michigan Agricultural College. Many Harvard men after their activities of the vacation may appreciate the lines...
...active service under American officers in France in the immediate future. Enlistment blanks will be received here in a few days. All men in the University who are qualified, who are interested, and who are not otherwise irrevocably engaged are invited to communicate at once with BRENT D. ALLINSON '18, 52 Mt. Auburn Street...
Awards: Coolidge Prize, J. H. Spitz '17; Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize, B. D. Allinson '18; Bowdoin Prize in Classics, W. C. Greene 3G; Bowdoin Prize, H. J. Leon '18, S. Hecht 3G, J. P. Moffat '19, H. V. Fox '18, M. Brandwene '17; Ricardo Prize Scholarship to Robert L. Wolf...
...last meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announcement was made of the winners of two of the Bowdoin prizes, and also of the winner of the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize. Brent Dow Allinson '18, of Chicago, Ill., won the latter prize of 100 for a poem entitled "To Josiah Royce." This prize was established by the Class of '88 by an endowment in memory of their classmate, Lloyd McKim Garrison, for the best poem on a subject to be chosen annually by a committee of the Department of English...
...either case it is not sonorous enough to be self-justifying. Like most undergraduate writers of sonnets, and many older writers, Mr. Allinson is still more or less at the mercy of his form, as the words "all the world is fay" too plainly reveal: unsatisfactory workmanship clogs much of whatever poetic thought the sonnet contains. Mr. Code's sonnet is specific and lively; but it contains a nine-syllabled verse, and an Alexandrine. The latter can scarcely be intentional, since it is not the final verse. The sonnet form is so exacting that it is seriously damaged by stray...