Word: metered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Applause Meter...
...most impressive poetry in the May Advocate is John Allman's. He has a highly functional sense of rhythm and meter which he combines with a capacity for descriptive precision. In "Cambridge Spring" he uses both skills to recreate the voice of a stunned narrator describing a sudden transition of feeling from understated calm to vivid panic...
...worship of the sea was traditional for a maritime nation and his charming pastorals were long echoes of a yeoman past. His most famous short poem, Sea-Fever, was published with his first collection in 1902 and froze the seaman's world for ever in rolling, hypnotic meter...
Penn and Princeton, while they stayed with the other two crews, did not make a serious push until just before the 1000-meter mark. By 500-meters-to-go, the race had spread out a bit: Cornell by a length over Pennsylvania, and almost even with Princeton, which held a half-length over Harvard...
Harvard settled to a 36 after its start, but was not out of the race by any means, for Penn never really settled its stroke at all. At the 1000 meter mark, Penn was up at 39. Harvard, back by four seats and stroking a smooth 34, was moving closer...