Word: ode
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...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...
...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...
...last night in Paris, Mr. Johnson met Senorita Meller, gave her his ode...
...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...