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...three prizes for English dissertations, a first of $250, and two second prizes of $100 each. Essays may be on any topic approved by the Committee on Bowdoin Prizes. For Greek and Latin there are two prizes of $50 each, one for a translation of a passage from Walter Pater's "A Study of Dionysus" into Attic Greek, and one for a Latin translation of a passage from Henry Cabot Lodge's "Life of Daniel Webster...
...marked by delicacy of feeling and a certain just refinement of phrase, but they lack directness of inspiration and first-hand freshness of speech. They are earnest, eager, painstaking and -- traditional. The author has not yet quite released himself from his models,--for a guess, Tennyson in poetry and Pater in the prose. Of the poems, "The Death of Penelope" is by far the longest flight; and it is well sustained. The poet's observation of the scenic world is close and sympathetic, and it is matched by considerable skill of descriptive phrase. Of briefer compass, the lyrics...
...library, gymnasium, and chemical laboratory, thrown in. Mr. Paul Mariett contributes some lines on "Crew-Practice." Mr. Mariett possesses a command of language which is unique for a young man; at present, however, he is in the imitative stage; now he merges himself in Whitman, now in Walter Pater. His present business is to discover himself, the discovery will bring something well worth while...
...proposed to himself, the question which played so large a part in the schemes of the early Greek physical philosophers--"What is this world about us?" Like Odysseus, Mr. Blythe communes with his soul and dreams brave dreams. Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez writes in honor of the memory of Walter Pater in words which suggest Pater's style, though the title to the verse is not quite happy. Mr. Ward Shepard writes seriously on "The Spirit of Traherne." Traherne is unknown to so many of us that Mr. Shepard would have done better to have made his essay more...
...Bowdoin prizes in Greek and Latin have been awarded for 1907-08 as follows: graduate prize of $100, to R. C. Horn 2G., for an original essay in Greek; undergraduate prizes of $50 each, to F. Livesey '08, for a translation into Latin of a passage in Walter Pater's "Marius the Epicurean;" and to E. W. Friend '10, for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage in Walter Pater's "Plato and Platonism...