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...time has come," said Henry Goddard Leach one day last winter, "for somebody to stop guessing and really find out what undergraduates of 1934 think about...
Able, successful editor of Forum & Century, longtime promoter of student exchanges between the U. S. and Scandinavia, onetime English instructor at Harvard, Henry Goddard Leach decided that he himself was well equipped to do the job. Most students of a philosophic turn of mind, he figured, write poetry. Therefore he announced a college poetry contest. The response was overwhelming. For a chance at cash prizes of $50, $30 and $20, 2,394 college poets bared their souls in nearly 3.000 poems. Plucky Investigator Leach read every single one down to the last line. Last week in Manhattan he was ready...
...proof he had the writings of students in 205 colleges, including every major one except Princeton, whose Class Poet in 1903 was Henry Goddard Leach. Every State except Arizona, Delaware, Nevada, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming was represented. There were marked regional differences. Most melodious were Southern poets, who picked dark themes, treated them tenderly. Most mystical were Californians; most practical, Ohioans. Natives of New England and Oregon, its Pacific offspring, were inclined to find their romance in scientific observation. New Yorkers distinguished themselves by lack of originality, as compared with Minnesotans...
...combined orchestras will be conducted by Miss Florence Leach of Colby, and by Malcolm H. Holmes '28. The program will include Mendelssohn's overture to Fingal's Cave, three movements from the Jupiter Symphony by Mozart, and "Tales from the Vienna Woods," by Johann Strauss...
...School, the Law II aggregation, which only lost one game. The Medical School basketeers nosed out the Arts and Sciences five for third place, and last place goes to the Dental School team with five defeats and not a single victory. The Law III team, without their captain, Bob Leach, succeeded in winning the championship handily and also defeating the Junior Varsity. They were never headed during the entire season, and won their game with the element rival, Law II, easily, with Glick leading the scoring as he did in many of the previous games...