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...Cale Young Rice won a roller-skating championship. At 16 he captained an undefeated baseball team. Says he: "I am sure these small triumphs served to strengthen the muscles of my will for the long climb to poetic goals. . . ." Poet Rice's story of his climb up Parnassus has as many alibis as there were slips on its slopes. Thus his attempts eo crash Broadway with verse dramas were steady failures because of "resentment against the frequently made assertion that I was 'America's foremost poet...
Poems were read by Poets Cale Young Rice (Stygian Freight), Clinton Scollard (Epic of Golf, Songs of Summer), Willard Austin Wattles (The Funston Double Track), Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (wife of Clinton Scollard [The Lifted Cup]). None of the reading poets were Rollins alumni...
...been sufficient, the ghost must be dispersed, by the old device of hoax exposers; he must be confronted with self-comparisons, odious though they may be. First, in the Harvard scale, come the names of George Santayana, Percy McKaye, John Jay Chapman, Ed win Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost and Cale Young Rice. They, to be sure belong to the era before the ghost was raised; but they still manage to keep pace with the advancing generations. After the century mark stand such poets as Hermann Hagedorn. John Gould Fletcher, Arthur Davison Ficks, all of them forces in the newer poetry...
...officers of the Harvard Banjo Club for the ensuing year are as follows: President, H. K. Caner; Leader, W. W. Cale; Secretary, F. S. McCleary...