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The Sargent prize for the best metrical translation of one of the odes of Horace was won by a freshman, G. R. Philbrook of Fitchburg.
"In Tenebris," the only verse of the number,-for it is not a poem-is a sonnet on the lofty subject of mid-year examinations. A sonnet is not usually considered the fittest metrical form for persiflage of this character.
The Christmas number of Scribner's contains the metrical version of the 29th ode of the third book of Horace, by Miss Helen Read, which won the Sargent prize of 1890.
The Atlantic during the past few months has fairly bristled with studies on metrical renderings. Professor Palmer set the ball rolling in October with his papers on translating Homer. This month William P. Andrews writes an article "On the Translation of Faust." while the Contributors' Club of the same number...
For the best metrical version of the ninth Ode of the fourth Book of Horace.