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National--"A Song of Death" (poem), by Nathan Haskell Dole '74; "Christmas Visitors from Over-Seas," by Ralph Bergengren '93; "Ballad of Eden" (poem), by Frederic Lawrence Knowles...
...most noteworthy verse in the number is a ballad, "The Jest of God," by H. W. Holmes '03. Its movement and poetry are exceptionally well sustained throughout. A misplaced line unfortunately mars the effect in two of the stanzas...
...Cummings '03, is amusingly told. "A Stockholder in the L and N," is an attempt at a dialect sketch, but it is quite without coherence, and the dialect itself does not seem well sustained. Among the contributions in verse "Among the Cedars," by R. P., deserves favorable mention. "The Ballad of the Trenton," by L. W., is a spirited tribute to the officers and men who "met their death so merrily" at the naval disaster of Samoa in 1889. To be sure the poem loses some force from the fact that in reality the "Trenton" sank in shoal water...
...least effective, and "The Burgomaster" the most so. The selections from "San Toy" played as an encore to the "Awakening of the Lion," aroused much enthusiasm, as did also the waltz "Wedding of the Winds." P. L. Fish '01 sang both his numbers with styles and expression. The popular ballad, "Answer," was well played by R. W. Dibble '01 and received an encore. Sousa's march, "Hail to the Spirit of Liberty," followed by "Fair Harvard," formed a fitting close to the programme...
...three selections of verse the best from a literary point of view is a sonnet entitled "Poetry," by Lauriston Ward. It is unconventional, has much freedom of movement and expresses the thought admirably. In a very different vein is "The Ballad of the Overconfident Pollywog," by F. R. DuBois. This "fable for Freshmen" is full of life, amusing, and all the better for being quite different from the usual run of Advocate verse. "Sunset in Penobscot Bay" by W. B. W. shows appreciation of nature and is written in a metre well adapted to the subject. The number closes with...