Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work. It reveals deep appreciation and true understanding admirably supported by sound sesthetic standards. "Poetry and Poets," which may be considered one of the last autheritic utterances of the old New England school of liberals, contains among other things, Miss Lowell's views on "Poetry, Imagination, and Education," Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and D. R. Lawrence...
Miss Lowell's criticism of Whitman and Dickinson is, on the whole, conservative. She laments the narrowing shelter of Miss Dickinson's friends and points out her great art in "presenting movement." For the author of "Leaves of Grass" she has no superlative praise, but commenting on his writing she declares it is poetry "because he approaches his subject from the poetic point of view." Then comes this significant addition, "what makes a literary work prose or poetry . . . is a matter of approach and of return. By return I mean some device by which a poem is brought continually back...
...Dickinson Hall, latest of Princeton's overnight architectural feats, most of the classrooms and administrative offices will be housed. Undergraduates will be required to take certain preliminary courses in Sophomore year to orient them for their upperclass studies, which will be fully under the guidance of the School. Graduate courses will be provided. Operating in conjunction with the new School is the recently endowed Bureau of International Finance, under the direction of famed Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer, whose succoring of commercially sick nations has taken him to Chile, Colombia, Bolivia. Ecuador, Poland, South Africa...
...Sophomores are K. G. Balfour '32, John Dane, Jr. '32, H. C. Dickinson '32, J. W. Appel '32, and T. G. Whiteside...
...Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.), one Thomas Gibb, 19, paralytic Freshman, was initiated into the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. Told to let himself down from a three-story window by a rope looped to the sash, he climbed out. The rope slipped, gave way, tumbling him to the ground. His parents, in China, were notified that he had suffered a broken hip, wrist, ankle, that he might die. One William Billow, likewise a Freshman, likewise a fraternity neophyte, was told to go to Harrisburg and get Governor John S. Fisher's signature. He was arrested breaking into a window...