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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...like the first poem, it is better in the first half than in the second. His "Recompense" expresses an old idea with much beauty, and would be satisfying if he had stopped after two stanzas, omitting the final quartrain. Mr. Whittlesey's "Lines" deal gracefully with a familiar form of the pathetic fallacy. Mr. Auslander's "Forsaken" is pretty, but not quite so pretty as it should be, Mr. Simpson's Imitation of the Rubaiyat" is creditable but not valuable. Mr. Allinson contributes two poems, "Die Gotterdammerrung" and a sonnet. The first is chiefly in unrhymed pentameters, with nine-syllabled...
...either case it is not sonorous enough to be self-justifying. Like most undergraduate writers of sonnets, and many older writers, Mr. Allinson is still more or less at the mercy of his form, as the words "all the world is fay" too plainly reveal: unsatisfactory workmanship clogs much of whatever poetic thought the sonnet contains. Mr. Code's sonnet is specific and lively; but it contains a nine-syllabled verse, and an Alexandrine. The latter can scarcely be intentional, since it is not the final verse. The sonnet form is so exacting that it is seriously damaged by stray...
Strauss, "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, after the Old-Fashioned English Manner-in Rondo Form...
...have striven in vain to assail, that two speakers holding such diverse opinions on great world events should speak under exactly the same conditions. With no show of boasting it may be said that the open-mindedness of the University's members is more than a word and a form. It is true in the sincerest spirit. All opinions that are sane and intelligent have here the same reception. They are judged on their merits...
...Yale university and freshman relay teams which will race in the B. A. A. Meet next Saturday have been selected. J. W. Overton, H. S. F. Cooper, L. Marshall and H. Rolfe will form the university four, and G. W. Spurr, E. C. Atkins, E. F. Thompson and R. B. Reed will represent the freshmen...