Word: lyrical
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...Sargent Prize of $100 donated annually in memory of John Osborne Sargent '30 for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace has recently been announced...
...Kochanski was enthusiastically received. His tone, while light, was charmingly lyric, and the rapid and laborious succession of double-stopped chords showed what a fine master of technique he is. Why he should have chosen the Bruch Fantasy to play, we cannot imagine. It is far too long, and the accompaniment is so heavy that it completely drowns out the violin on many occasions. There is little evidence of any Scottish characteristics except when the folk tunes themselves appear. At times we are reminded of an inferir "Rheingold". The work, however, has always been a favorite with violinists...
...chagrin when he learned that a movie magnate had chosen "Male and Female" as the title for a screen version of "The Admirable Crichton." A similar feeling would animate Poe were he alive to learn that Bostonians have been viewing a picture of "Annabel Lee." Poe wrote a passable lyric, but the consensus of opinion among the movie people has been that the six short stanzas are woefully deficient in plot. This has been repaired by the scenario writer, who carries the love story of David and sailor and Annabel through many adventures and vicissitudes for the background provides delightful...
...Roxbury. Half of the Dante Prize was awarded to Walter L. Bullock, a first-year graduate student from Rugby, England. The Ricardo Prize Scholarship in Economics has been awarded to Elmo P. Hohman 1G. of Nashville, III. The Sargent Prize for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace has been won by John D. Evans of Boston. The Pasteur Medal awarded by Baron Pierre de Coubertin for the successful contestant in an annual debate on a subject drawn from contemporary French: politics, the debate to be conducted in English, has been won by C. W. Phelps...
...song competition which closed last week has been won by G. F. Warburg and R. C. Rogers. The former composed the music and the latter wrote the lyric for the piece, which will be sung at the Jubilee and will be used as the class song...