Word: odes
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...were present. After the dinner Mr. King, chairman of the club, announced that a sufficient sum had been subscribed for the purchase of a lot on West Forty-fourth street, where a building will soon be erected to be called the Harvard House. Mr. King finished by reading an ode written by Oliver Wendell Holmes on the occasion of the first dinner of the New York Harvard Club...
...Commemoration Day, when Mr. Lowell read his great ode, that Phillips Brooks was asked to offer a prayer. "The services on that occasion," said the marshal of the day "Were not equal to what men felt. Words seemed to be too weak. Phillips Brooks' prayer was an exception...
...Thompson; poet, C. B. Newton; ivy orator, A. P. Andrew; historian, P. H. Davis; presentation orator, W. A. Guild; class prophet, B. B. McAlpin; censor, R. T. Sloss; Washington's Birthday Orator, N. B. Tarkington; '76 prize debate, J. B. Carter; Nassau Herald Committee, Wylie, DeWitt and Dodd; Class Ode Committee, H. Rogers, Carpenter and Dunn; Class Day Committee, S. Rogers, Lester, Shelton, Cochran, Fraser, Warren, Beveridge, Carpenter, Woodcock, Henderson, Black, Morris, Driscoll, and Ferguson...
...Sargent Prize for the best metrical translation of an ode from Horace also fell to an Annex student. Of last year's graduates three are pursuing higher studies and four are teaching in important educational institutions...
...most noteworthy verse of the number is W. F. Herrick's "Translation of Horace, Ode XVI, Book III," which won the Sargent Prize...