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MILTON."SKIP the poetry." Chum's eyes were weak, after the midyear grind, and I was reading the Crimson to him as he sat, with his back to the fire, gazing partly into vacancy, and partly at a photograph of one of Raphael's Madonnas, which adorned our modest study. We had read all about the grievances of the Memorial Hall victims which are almost as enlivening as the old plank-walk appeals; all the discussions intended to prove that a man who wears a clean shirt insults a man who does not, or (and to the latter opinion...
...these I had waded through, my chum giving, from time to time, a grunt of satisfaction or more frequently of mingled pity and disgust, when my eye fell upon a poem. "Shall I read you this?" I said. "O, skip the poetry!" was his answer. "But you might at least hear the title," said I. "Well, what is it," growled he. I said humbly, "Lines to a Fading Rose"; it begins...
Though I had no heart to blame my chum in the concrete instance, I did deliver him a lecture on the abstract scorn of poetry, that is so prevalent among us, and a few words from this it is my purpose to indite here...
...absolute standard, than that of our college papers; but as educators of college taste they may be inferior, since the poetry of our classmates is more superficial and more easily understood than the work of those who have been breathing the atmosphere of poetry all their lives." Chum repeated his previous remark...
...chum at this point said, "O, let up!" So I followed the example of Emmanuel Kant (r. note-books Phil. II.) "and then dried...