Word: cat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this issue are impressive numerically at least. Mr. Cowley's "Eighteenth Century Sonnet," intentionally unorthodox in form, is the most interesting and individual of the poems. I wonder why it is secreted at the very end of the number. Of the five sonnets, Mr. Hull's "To a Cat" and the sestet of Mr. Cabot's "Late Spring" stand out as something more than a succession of words arranged with varying skill in a predetermined pattern. Mr. Morrison's "Song" contains two or three significant lines and flows along sonorously. In "Lines," Mr. Behn has conveyed a single impression through...
Spring fever has had a disastrous effect on the students at a certain Kansas normal school. Quite in accordance with the old adage about the cat and the mice, the embryo teachers, while their headmaster was away from home for a few days, celebrated their little vacation by playfully tossing a couple of faculty members into the campus lake because, forsooth, they would not be forced into laying planks for a board running track...