Word: coupleteer
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...does "The Tryst" by W. H. Nes uC. make any valuable addition to an anthology of American poetry. R. Cutler '16, however, proves his capability in the vein of humorous verse by "Why Give Her the Ballot?" This little poem is very much worth while, and the closing couplet is its crowning feature...
...them. A description and drawing of Standish Hall, the first of the new buildings, are given, showing that the simple lines of the older dormitories are to be followed, save in the elaborate portal. It is to be hoped that the result will be so fine that a new couplet will not be added to the ancient ditty...
...Academy of Florence by Cosimo dei Medici was one of the incidental and unexpected consequences of the Council of Florence, held in 1439. Foremost among the members of the academy was Politian, the general purport of whose poems may be gathered from a rendering of a single couplet: "O happy violets, which that hand hath prest...
...pretty. "My Wall Paper" is a pleasant story by Knoblauch. "A Long Time to Wait" is one of the best things that Chamberlin has written this year. It is a rather pathetic story and is very well done. "Cutting The Leaves" is a poem without much merit. A pretty couplet is "Uncut Pages, begun and ended with liltings learned from olden time." "Under the Profile" is another of Louis How's stories. It is long and at times interesting. The end is flat. "Hal Longworth," is a story of the sensational type, the hero dropping dead...
...essay on "The Heroic Couplet in English Verse" is very interesting, and shows a careful study and an unusually large acquaintance with early English poetry...