Word: odes
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...funeral ode we sing to Eli Yale...
...funeral ode we sing to Eli Yale...
...perfected Doric temple, by means of its slightly curved lines and unequal spacings, produces the effect of a structure with straight lines and equal spacings, the truth of the imagination far surpassing the truth of reality; and a play of Sophocles or an ode of Pindar is a literary structure to which the same painstaking care has been given. But in translation the effect of all this delicate workmanship is irretrievably lost. He who is content to study the classics in translation alone will be content to regard as Doric temples the post-office buildings, with column drums slushed...
...Class Ode, by Paul Rice Doolin, is a good chore well done, and there is no particular fault to be found with Mr. King's "Comradeship," in the June number. The Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize Poem, by A. Morley Dobson, shows much skill in the difficult sestina, but far too little depth of judgement. In more senses than one, it is simple to uphold one side of the Flume controversy, and only to rhapsodize, not judge, or analyze the question. The normal reaction from this sort of thing has been expressed by an undergraduate some months ago, in the Harvard...
Exercises in Sanders Theatre, 11 A. M.; class oration by Slater Washburn, class poem by James G. King Jr., class ode by Paul R. Doolin; chorister, John V. Spalding...