Word: macdiarmid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poets have rarely felt so compelled to take account of public interest for good or ill as in the fourth decade of the 20th Century. Putting foot to spade in Europe they have turned over so many clodfuls of dead cultural matter that their most vivid talents. Joyce, Auden, MacDiarmid. Aragon, seem hell-bitten to innocent readers. Among affirmatory fledglings, Revolution or at least the advance of the masses has easily displaced Love and Death...
...evening was furnished by Simmon J. Seder '36, who displayed unexpected power by defeating the defending champion, Edwin C. Ihrig 2L, in one of the 125-pound bouts. Peter B. Olney '37, captain of this year's Freshman team, fought a brilliant fight in knocking out Colin H. MacDiarmid '37 in the second round of their 155-pound match. The other knockout was scored by Edgar S. Davis '37, who stopped Elwood Henneman '37 in the last round of their encounter...