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...undergraduate's point of view, in terms which will be as intelligible twenty years from today as to the class of 1907. Mr. Bynner has struck out lines which phrase the Harvard College of his own time in a thoroughly representative spirit. The poem is as unique among odes as it is among works dealing with the life in American colleges. George Ade has satirized the exuberance of the western "universities"; Cornell, Princeton, Columbia and Harvard has each its volume of "stories." The striking fact about Mr. Bynner's ode is that it could no more have come from...
...Ode to Harvard and Other Poems" by W. Bynner '02. Small, Maynard & Company...
After the treatment which the College, and especially its undergraduate part, has received at the hands of literature during the past ten or dozen years, such a performance as Mr. Bynner's ode inspires, first of all, gratitude. It views the College from no warped social angle, it presents no special group, it is a thorough summing up of the experience of the average undergraduate. He can lay his finger on this poem and say "This and this is the Harvard College which I knew...
Though the name sounds formidable, the form of the ode is very free. Its length, some fifty pages of the book, enables the author to cover the field,--the Yard, Harvard bridge, the Stadium, the river, Marliave's, Class Day--all the haunts and activities of the normal undergraduate. A few lines of quotation will give an idea of its tone...
SENIORS' CLASS DAY EXERCISES. Prayer by Rev. Francis G. Peabody, D.D. Oration by Seth Thomas Gano. Poem by Hermann Hagedorn, Jr. Ode by Wilder Goodwin. Sanders Theatre...