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There is plenty of material which should entice the modern reader, for the original sponsors of the book had certain definite notions of what it was to be good for and what were its selling points. These they took laborious metrical pains to set forth beyond the possibility of doubt...
The thirteenth ode of the second book of Horace will be the subject for translation for the Sargent Prize for 1924, it has just been announced. This prize of $100 is offered annually, in memory of John Osborne Sargent '30, for a metrical translation of one of Horace's lyrics...
Although the entire magazine is interesting, the verse impresses me as being better than the prose. Dudley Fitts Jr. contributes a joyful "Ode to Anne", "who demanded a piece in the jazzy measure." Mr. Fitts possesses feeling for metrical movement, and a blessed sense of the ridiculous. In "An Invective...
The competition for the Sargent prize for the best metrical translation of one of the odes of Horace, open to Radcliffe as well as to University students, has been won this year by a Radcliffe Freshman, Miss E.C. Evans, of Cambridge.
Among the four prizes for dissertations due today is the Dante Prize of $100, offered for an essay on a prescribed subject on Dante. A second is the Sargent Prize of $100 for the best metrical translation of the sixteenth ode of the third book of Horace. The last two...