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THESE poems do not, as some critics have asserted, show particular technical incompetence. Doubtless even in the 18th contury when critic and publisher were more fastidious, technically Mr. Hillyer's couplets would have been printable, although their manner would have been considered peculiar. This manner (I mean by manner a mingling of substance and style), however, because of its diffilusiveness and giddiness is discouraging...
...quotation of a lengthy paragraph is expedient to illustrate, completely and without partisanship, so muddled a volume. Mr. Hillyer is denouncing experimental novelists...
Entrants in the Lee Wade and Boylston speaking competitions must register with him at Warren House before March 1, Robert S. Hillyer '17, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, announced yesterday...
Candidates must choose a piece of literature in either prose or poetry, from English, Latin, or Greek, Professor Hillyer said, and submitted to him for approval. Although the closing date of registration is March 1 at 5 o'clock, candidates may obtain time extensions for choosing their selections...
...Hillyer is a man who has long held that the roots of true poetry are thrust deep in the traditions of centuries. His is not the frigid, classical view of the pedant, however, for he knows that poetry changes with the decades. But poetry to him is sacred, and in an age of frantic, formless compositions whose only worth lies in the white heat at which they are forged, Mr. Hillyer's poetry strikes a sure note. A sincere consideration of "A Letter to Robert Frest and Others" proves that Mr. Hillyer's poetry will stand the test of time...