Word: ode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ancients, writing critiques of John Milton and John Keats. He published a volume†† of new verses only a few weeks ago but there were no 'excited cable dispatches over the event. After the War, as became his station, he did deliver himself of an heroic ode, Brittannia Victrix, but a delicate bit called "Cheddar Pinks" in his new book is more characteristic. Indeed, so lost in pure artistry is Laureate Bridges that he quite forgot himself in a satiric bit addressed "To Catullus," referring to his immediate predecessors, Laureates Tennyson and Austin, as "those two pretty Laertes...
This will be followed by the Class poem, by C. A. Smart '26, and the Class Ode, by A. G. Cooke '26. In the afternoon at 3.30 o'clock the class will hold its Tree Exercises in the Stadium...
...Sanders Theatre exercises: Oration, Edward Campbell Aswell '26; Poem, Charles Allen Smart '26; Ode, Almon Goodwin Cooke...
...ancient Greece, the victorious athlete was adjudged a crown of olive, his praises were sung in an ode, and his triumphs were celebrated by a magnificent procession, and a riotous evening festival. In modern America, where olives do not abound except in jars, where the art of ode-making has degenerated since the time of Homer, where processions are a nuisance to traffic officers, and riotous festivals are rather stupid for lack of the means of making them genuinely riotous, it has been necessary to seek a new reward for unbeaten brawn...
...last night in Paris, Mr. Johnson met Senorita Meller, gave her his ode...