Word: butting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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The Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize Poem, "Whither?", by Joseph Auslander '17, is a conventional piece of verse clothed in appropriate language. Occasionally his images, to use Dr. Johnson's phrase, "pass the bounds of Nature." But on the whole his lines are smooth and pleasing.
Mr. Auslander invokes "the high, unheeding heart of beauty" melodiously; then, with a sense of return to actualities we read "Runaway," by Malcolm Cowley. Here is poetry stripped of every decoration. The technique is clever, but concealed; and the whole interest is thrown on the psychology of the country boy...
The yacht is a private one, but well adapted for its present purpose. It is 60 feet over all and 26 tons gross. Its seaworthiness is attested to by the fact that it has recently made a successful trip to the West Indies.
Efforts to secure such an amendment have already been made by President Lowell, but they have not been successful.
What is clear, however, is that the American soldier is showing up well. He is inexperienced and new to the game of war, but in spite of all he is "making good." That he is as useful as his French and English allies is liard to believe; they are veterans...