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The Advocate begins with an optimistic editorial on the latest shibboleth, the Honor System, and then presents the reader with a poem entitled, "To Some Good Editor Who'll Think." The latter contribution is an attempt to write humorous verse in that singing, swinging metrical form found in "The Ingoldsby...
The Sargent Prize of $100, given in memory of J. O. Sargent '80, is offered for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace. The selection for 1910-11 is the seventh ode of the third book. Translations should be prepared according to the general rules for the...
On April 1 the contest for the Bowdoin Prizes closes. These prizes are given for dissertations in English, Latin, and Greek, the best English essayist receives $250, and the second and third best, $100 each. Dissertations in Greek or Latin must be translations of specified passages in English literature, and...
The Sargent Prize of $100 has been awarded to Edward Thomas Eyre Hunt '10, of Mechanicsburg, O., for the best metrical translation of the sixteenth Epode of Horace. The judges were Mr. H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07 and Mr. F. H. Fobes '04.
The verse is notably good. Much of it is imaginative, and some of it has caught a larger diction than is usual in college poetry. Mr. Baker of the Yale Literary Magazine contributes a striking ballade; Mr. Hagedorn a fine monologue of New York street life; Mr. Seeger two sonnets...