Word: moaned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...danger when one of the yearling teams has defeated a noted rival, it may rest upon its laurels until the following Saturday's contest and be both outfought and defeated by a far inferior eleven. After this sad event all the Freshmen have wandered in town to moan, and to see a Harvard victory in the Stadium against Yale. The squad has shown its ability at Princeton; but it is this week's practice that will win or lose the Eli game. So on behalf of the University the CRIMSON asks the Freshman team to forget its glorious past...
...Norris contributes two: "At the Window" and "Tryst." The latter, a musical, romantic, little piece, is quite excellent; the former is not so good; Mr. Norris lets his penchant for the pictorial run away with him. It is true he speaks no more of the sea as "an enchanted moan," but allows the moon to shine brightly on a snowy hill above which is a black sky. Nevertheless, a pretty movement runs throughout, the idea is splendid, and the verses are well finished...
...proper respect for the true value of words; and Mr. Willcox two, of which neither approaches his best work. Mr. Clark, pictorial as ever and musical, deserts "verslibre" and so far forgets himself as to rhyme "end" with "again"; Mr. Norris writes of the sea as "an enchanted moan; Mr. Gazzan in Dead on the Field of Honor, a poem of fourteen verses more or less rhymed, is guilty of the line "While underneath each one a heading tells...