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Through the Poetry Society of America, a prize of $100 is offered by Mr. Witter Bynner '02 for the best poem by an undergraduate of any American college or university...
...exceed 200 lines. The name and address of the author must be on each page of the manuscript, which must be mailed, not later than May 15, to Mr. Raniel Long, 5559 Beeler Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. The judges are to be Mr. Long, Mr. Arthur Davison Ficke, and Mr. Bynner...
...McVeagh, for his picture of Wordsworth at "cross purposes with nature," goes the palm for the verse of the number; in fact these unpublished utterances of the Lake Poet should most assuredly go into the next collected volume of Advocate verse. One might quarrel with Mr. Witter Bynner ('02) for disturbing buried desires; for no sooner has the Editorial with Common Sense buried King Spirits than along come most enchanting pictures of Cantors, with numberless grapes and Bacchus with "viney patterns of the veining of his nose." After that the Freudian wish is no more and the sole remaining bottle...
...list of Advocate poets is long, but among them may be named Conrad P. Aiken '12, Harold Bell '07, John F. Brice '99, Witter Bynner '02, John Corbin '92, Lloyd McKim Garrison '88, Hermann Hagedorn '07, Edward Hale '79, Lawrence Stevens '01, and Langdon Warner...
Phillip W. Thayer in "A Transfigured Julia" gleefully hits off the capricious changes of fashion in girls: "Lissome Julia anatomically slight," "Robust Julia, playing golf and swimming harder," Suffrage Julia "prances in the [poet's] limelight." Witter Bynner is not up to his poetic form in "Though Wisdom Dies." Wisdom is a theme which cannot be completely developed in two short stanzas nor can imagination be "uncurled small as forget-me-nots." The characteristics of the verse of this number are cleverness, insight, a sure, light touch, and a sense of the sober humor of the contrasts of life...