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...outstanding feature, I agree with the editors, is the Class Poem, 1924, by Oliver La Farge. I wonder whether the author has been reading Edwin Arlington Robinson's poems; certainly he has caught something of that master's pattern and manner, his directness, his vigor, his telling expressiveness. Naturally enough Mr. La Farge has been unable to maintain the exquisite balance of form and substance that makes Robinson's best poems so exactly right, so stark and simple and inevitable; yet when Mr. La Farge falters into prose, his idea gives sufficient impetus to rush the reader along. Without lapsing...
...proposed bridge would cross the Potomac from the west end of the Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, via Columbia Island, to Arlington. Several kinds of sentimental attachments are in the project. It would reunite the North and South. It would connect the Lincoln Monument with the home of General Robert E; Lee on the Virginia shore. It would furnish a direct route from the Capitol to the National Cemetery at Arlington. It would extend the city's Mall across the Potomac to the grave of Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the Frenchman who designed the Capital city...
...bridge, a concrete structure completely covered with white marble, is to be more than a mile in length. At its entrance, Columbia Island, and at the Arlington shore are to be great plazas. At each end will be two monuments, each 40 feet high. On Columbia Island will be two columns, each 166 feet high, one representing the South, the other the North, on each a statue of Victory. Eagles will decorate the piers. Forty statues will rise along the balustrade at the bridge head. All this is to be secured at a cost of about 13 cents apiece...
...Luis Angel Firpo, strong of fist but somewhat weak of English, went to Washington for a visit. He saw Arlington Cemetery, and the Pan-American Building. His car then drove up to the White House Office building. He was announced, and the President ordered him admitted. The immense man walked into the President's room. Mr. Coolidge shook hands and throwing back his head looked up at Firpo. "Well," drawled Mr. Coolidge, "you certainly look all that your records have made us imagine...
Last week Mr. Coolidge in a memorial speech at Arlington Cemetery pronounced a few short paragraphs on the Court theme...