Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The original "Our Town"--from Thornton Wilder's famous play--was painted as the ideal site for a relocated university by Paul Cummings, Jr., editor of the weekly Peterborough Transcript, Mrs. Florence Connell, the town bookkeeper, and selectman Forrest Mercer.
"If it ever happens, I think it would be a good thing for you to escape that stuffy, musty Harvard Yard," Cummings said. "I'm a Dartmouth man myself, and I think you should get out of Cambridge as soon as you can."
True to his Dartmouth brothers, however, Cummings hesitated in giving statistics about how far Peterborough is from Colby Junior College, the Dartmouth refugee's traditional haunt.
Composer Persichetti suggests a poem by e. e. cummings as a Christmas hymn. First verse: purer than purest ptire whisper of whisper so, so (big with innocence) forgivingly a once of eager glory, no more miracle may grow.
Donald Hall cited the disappearence of "exciting" Magazines and blamed the conservative group which now, according to Hall, dominates this area. All the excitement, he continued, is from the old poets like Marianne Moore and e.e. cummings.