Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from his undergraduate days know that poetry has been to him from the first a sustaining power. Instinctively he has absorbed it and made it a part of himself; instinctively he turns to it for self-expression. His early poems show that "the numbers came". In blank verse his master was Milton; and he was an apter pupil than many; in light metres he could produce such a lovely little quatrain...
...master of versification, he took, as his right, a master's freedom. He was lavish of trisyllabic feet in iambic measures, giving anapaestic movement to line after line of a sonnet. His vocabulary was large and luxuriantly responsive, too ready to encourage love of words for the sound's sake. With closer attention to his art he has resolutely checked unthinking profusion: what he gives his reader is the quintessence of the poetry that is in him--his closely packed, severely chosen best; and in this best; and in this best are individuality, imagination, and beauty...
Reported born. To Mrs. Mathilde McCormick Oser, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, and Major Max Oser, Swiss ex-riding-master, a daughter; in Paris...
...players stopped for lunch at 1.30 in the boathouse, where Master of Ceremonies C. J. Swan '01 and Assistant Dean Little delivered speeches appropriate of the occasion...
...second successive game the Crimson nine played errorless ball. A considerable part of the credit for this achievement goes to Spalding, however, for he was so completely the master of the situation that the Princeton batters gave the University fielders very few hard chances. Spalding himself handled chances. Spalding himself handled eight fielding plays, several of them difficult, with nonchalant ease...