Word: booked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...important branch of the work of the committee is the clothing and text-book collection. Two of these are held every year, the fall collection this year being particularly large...
There will also be a competition for book-plate designs to be used in the album. The dimensions of the plate should be about seven by nine inches. The competition will close February 1, and all designs should be sent before that date to the Photograph Committee, H. A. A. Only members of the Senior Class are eligible to compete...
This little book by J. Pitts Sanborn '00 contains a prefatory sonnet and 17 poems in "vers libre," 17 quick glances at the city of Bordeaux in war time. Mr. Sanborn's love for Bordeaux is sincere, if we may judge from these lines in the sonnet...
...these lines might apply to almost any old French city in war time, and they give us a clue to the first defect of the book. The author has not found the soul of Bordeaux, that something which exists in every old city and distinguishes it from all other cities. He has the external features, the names of streets and parks, the jangling of old bells, the seasoned stone of the buildings, bridges and docks, and the "spire-shattered" sky. But frequently he seems to have been too busy being an imagist to be a poet as well...
...single artistic achievement of this book is the subtle suggestion of war that runs through it. From the first poem, in which we come to the river-dock at day-break, to the last poem, in which we rise before dawn to take an early train away from the ancient city, there is the quiet echo of fighting that is more impressive for its quietness...