Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Novel and refreshing, judging by standards now in vogue, are the theories of teaching outlined by the poet Robert Frost in a recent interview with the press. Mr. Frost, who is conducting a weekly class at Harvard this year, holds no brief for stereotyped spoon-fed education. He states frankly that for him education is a take-it- or-leave-it affair in which he will "just keep silent, or even lie down on the desk until it is realized that what I want is self-starters, not followers of a set routine...
...Sonny, that fellow is on the other side but I admire him more than any other man. That man is a monolith. There are no seams that the frost can get through. He is of one piece...
That man was Pierce Butler, who died one day last week, just before dawn. With this 220-lb., 6-foot-2-inch monolith died the last hopes of those who believe that the frost is getting through the seams of the U. S. Constitution. With four New Dealers on the Supreme Court bench and a fifth to take Pierce Butler's place, snowy-whiskered Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes will no longer control the balance of power...
That is the way Poet Robert Lee Frost, sitting in the new Ralph Waldo Emerson Chair of Poetry,* talked to some 40 reverently attentive students at Harvard University last week. No newcomer to Harvard or to teaching, Robert Frost was successively English Professor at Amherst, and Poet in Residence at the University of Michigan; at Harvard for three years gave the popular Charles Eliot Norton poetry lectures. Harvard hopes he will sit in the Emerson Chair for at least two years...
Never a formal man, Robert Frost is at his most informal on the Thursday nights when he slouches crosslegged, drawling away for a couple of hours in the shadowy, comfortable Upper Common Room at Harvard's Adams House. A master poet, he takes a poet's license in teaching. His half-year course is labeled "Poetry," but Frost gives himself a wide range. Some of his class find plenty to worry about in such Frost-bites as: "Don't Work - Worry" -or: "I save my scorn for the people who say what everyone else says...