Word: ode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night, Robert Underwood Johnson, Director of the Hall of Fame, ex-editor, famed poet, one-time U. S. Ambassador to Italy, was not at the theatre. In bed at his hotel, enveloped in a blue and white dressing-gown, he was writing an ode beneath the electric light. Thus a reporter found him, and elicited these words: "Raquel Meller is the world's greatest living artiste. . . It is hard to analyze just why she is so wonderful for her charm lies in the fact that she is so perfectly graceful in many ways...
...exercises will be held in Sanders Theatre. Following a prayer by Professor E. C. Moore, chairman of the board of preachers, Philip Walker '25, class orator, will deliver the oration. John Marshall '25, class poet, will then recite the class poem and J. A. Abbot '25 will deliver the Ode. Alden Briggs '25, the Chorister, will lead the singing which takes place during the exercises...
...Sanders Theatre exercises: Prayer, Professor Edward C. Moore '78: Oration, Philip Walker; Poem, John Marshall: Ode, John Adams Abbott...
Poet Henley once began: "If I were king, my pipe should be premier." "Hail, social tube," sang Dr. Syntax. Moreover, there is an ode, well-deserving of immortality, by one Francis Hoyland: On An Old Maid That Chewed Tobacco...
...deftly appraises; what few can see?the seed that springs in mystery, the slow roots thrusting through the dark of the mind to flower in beauty?she reveals with psychology for her spade. By this method, she puts the whole of Endymion through psychological reconstruction; explains why the Ode to a Grecian Urn is a "flawless example of clear, unvexed, wide-eyed beauty"; the Ode to a Nightingale "a no less perfect presentation of absolute magic"; why "Keats' whole soul was in The Eve of St. Agnes"; Hyperion she scores as "a failure"; praises the little-famed Meg Merrilies...