Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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January 10: 757 Universities invited to Tercentenary. Students reject old age pensions in Crimson poll. January 14: Freshmen receive free exam reviews from faculty members under sponsorship of Union Committee. January 20: Robert Frost named Norton Poetry Professor for half year. January 24: President Conant recommends special degree in Education and Arts and Sciences in annual report. Necessity for untagged funds emphasized. January 27: Memorial service for George V in Memorial Church. January 29: National Scholarship area extended to Tenessee and Missouri...
...Further Range, Poet Frost's latest collection, contains some 50 pieces, from two-line quiddities to an eleven-page discourse. Though the subjects are generally homely, everyday, they range a long way from home but always come back to a New England earth. The sight of a boy teasing some caged monkeys with a burning-glass leads Frost to some characteristic thoughts on monkeys...
Without laboring analogies Poet Frost yet manages to convey in his homespun terms a philosophy that has both personal and political implications...
...Author- Bigheaded, heavy-lidded, unruly-haired Robert Lee Frost was 61 last March. That he was born in San Francisco is an unimportant accident: from his father back, his ancestors were New Englanders, and New England has been his home since he was 10. Something there was in Poet Frost that did not like a college, in his youth. He left Dartmouth after a few months, Harvard after two years. He worked as a mill-hand, a shoemaker, a newshawk, tried farming, then teaching. At 37 he sold his farm, took his wife and four children to old England. There...
Admirers describe Poet Frost as looking like "Puck in a sack-suit," his voice as "the barking of an eagle." Others think he looks like a Yankee hired man, talks like one. A Further Range, with Andre Malraux's Days of Wrath (TIME, June 1), is the June choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...