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...research, are the remaining longer prose articles. Besides these we have ex-Governor Long's speech for the semi-centennial of the class of 1857, so charming that one can only regret that it is so short, and a selection from the recently published "Ode to Harvard" by Witter Bynner '02. Many have felt that this ode marks a new epoch in Harvard literature; at all events its vigor and vividness and charm make it a poem that no Harvard man--and this is especially true of undergraduates today--can afford to pass...
Page after page of the poem deals with undergraduate life from the inside, from the undergraduate's point of view, in terms which will be as intelligible twenty years from today as to the class of 1907. Mr. Bynner has struck out lines which phrase the Harvard College of his own time in a thoroughly representative spirit. The poem is as unique among odes as it is among works dealing with the life in American colleges. George Ade has satirized the exuberance of the western "universities"; Cornell, Princeton, Columbia and Harvard has each its volume of "stories." The striking fact...
...Harvard and Other Poems" by W. Bynner '02. Small, Maynard & Company...
After the treatment which the College, and especially its undergraduate part, has received at the hands of literature during the past ten or dozen years, such a performance as Mr. Bynner's ode inspires, first of all, gratitude. It views the College from no warped social angle, it presents no special group, it is a thorough summing up of the experience of the average undergraduate. He can lay his finger on this poem and say "This and this is the Harvard College which I knew...
...from beginning to end, vigorous, and thoroughly worth reading. "June", a poem by John Corbin '92, is perhaps a little uneven in quality, but it is high praise to say that in many lines it comes very close to the spirit of its title. "The Salvation Army", by Witter Bynner '02, is a half quizzical bit of verse, which very aptly phrases the attitude of those "who stand aside and say, 'O, they accomplish good.'" The number as a whole represents well, if not so completely as one might wish, the literary traditions on which the Advocate has been standing...