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...Contents. In An Autobiographical Foreword* the poet (whose personality is probably better known to a larger number of more diverse audiences than that of any other living American bard) devotes 28 pages to reminiscences of his youth, answering with kindly humor the thousand-and-one foolish questions any writer of prominence is always asked about himself and his work, and attacking the popular newspaper legend that pictures him as a noisy apostle of poetical jazz. He explains his love for Egypt; his admiration for Poe; his forbears; his reason for going on the road, a new beggar-troubadour, trading...
...more or less of an open secret in Washington, however, that the "bard-boiled" variety of Republican politicians privately do not relish the idea of having women help run the party. They regard women as more or less futile in politics, as meddlesome, temperamental, troublemaking. On this account they have not given women a larger voice in the party. Since 1920, the Democratic Party has been "coddling" women voters. It is said that a time has come when some action must be taken to save many women's votes for the Republican Party...
...curious that so American a bard as Mr. Guest, singer of motherhood, should have been born in England. Such is the case; and he was born, moreover, in Birmingham. At the age of ten, however, he was transplanted to Detroit, a town somewhat similar in atmosphere to Birmingham. There he almost immediately went to work for the Detroit Free Press, with which paper he has been associated ever since. A romantic career, surely, for his rise has been from menial jobs to the height of fame-in journalism at least...
This competition is open to students in any department of the University, and to graduates of any department of not more than three years' standing. It will close January 1, 1923. The judges will be Messrs. Thomas Adams of Boston and London, and Albert S. Bard '92 L. and Nelson P. Lewis of New York...
...regulations for the competition specify that the essays should be typewritten and signed with a fictitious name, and should be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the name and address of the competitor or competitors, and sent to Albert S. Bard, 25 Broad Street, New York City, so as to reach him on or before June 1, 1923. Two or more competitors may collaborate, the prize to be divided among them in the event of their success...