Word: cowley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Others will be sent to Yale, Princeton, and Cornell. At present one of the number is studying the method of improving the Fine Arts Department at Dartmouth by visiting several colleges and spending a week at each. One of the representation sent to Harvard will be W. Harold Cowley, Editor-in-Chief and President of "The Dartmouth...
...mission house and chapel for members of the University has been opened by the Society of St. John the Evangelist (Episcopal), better known as the "Cowley Fathers", at 978 Memorial Drive, next to the University Press. The mission will be controlled from the larger mission in Boston, and will, for the present, be in charge of the Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E...
...contributors to the book are Norman Cabot, Grant Code, Malcolm Cowley, Jack Merton, Joel T. Rogers, R. Cameron Rogers, Royall Snow, and John Brooks Wheelright. All of them, in various degrees, justify their right to a place in the volume...
Among the most interesting work is some of Mr. Cowley's. His "Chateau de Soupir" has a dry poetic wit that is delightful; and the successful capturing of atmosphere in his "Mountain Farm" makes it one of the most beautiful poems in the book...
...unless to quarrel with Mr. Cowley's eccentricities of capitalization and punctuation; for, after all, these things are only a convention, and of importance only as they help or hinder the expression of the poetic idea. But their danger is more obvious in other of Mr. Cowley's poems, where a desperate effort to be "modern" at any cost takes heavy toll from his sense of beauty. The evil effect of this strained modernism, this pursuit of superficial novelty as an end in itself, is of course more operative in all the arts today,--though there are at least...