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...irregularities in meter. Even the timeliness of the poem does not rescue it from mediocrity. Mr. Edwin Arlington Robinson, a former contributor to the Monthly, has recently treated the same thought from an entirely different angle in his poem "The Field of Glory". Of the shorter verse, Mr. Petersen's "The Sun and the Rain" shows promise, and Mr. Hillyer's sonnet is worthy of notice...
...Murfreesboro, Ark.; Carl Gates Freese '15, of South Framingham; Howard Redwood Guild, Jr., '17, of West Roxbury; Charles Cochran Keedy 2L., of Hagerstown, Md.; Bernhard Henry Knollenberg 1L., of Richmond, Ind.; David Wilber Lewis '15, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; William Moulton Marston '15, of Cliftondale; Milton Everett Petersen '16, of Omaha. Neb.; Warren Bruce Pernie '15, of Springfield; Daniel Crosby Robinson '17, of St. Paul, Minn.; Maurice Suravitz 2L., of Scranton, Pa.; Edward Otto Tabor 1L., of Pascagoula, Miss...
...meeting of the board of editors of the Harvard Monthly held yesterday, Arthur Calvert Smith '14, of Milton, was elected a literary editor, and Milton Everett Petersen '16, of Omaha, Neb., and Paul Cochran Rodgers '16, of Winthrop, were elected business managers...
...remaning prose Mr. Petersen's sketch of "Fiddlepeg Smith" sacrifices to narrative climax the main interest--the character of Fiddlepeg, with whom we fail to attain intimacy. In concluding with Richard Dana Skinner's article on Belloc, which deserved emphasis because of its clear method and definite thought, one notes its greater freedom from petty vices of alliteration, involved figures, and appositional clauses such as mar the style especially of Mr. Moyse Would that the Monthly, as representative of Harvard might stand for truth to life and good sense, as in the work of Mr. Nathan and Mr. Hillyer...
...magazine has usually disregarded literary fads and enjoyed a conservative reputation. The Monthly is still conservative in appearance; no artist's model smirks on the cover; but the contents of the excellent November number show here and there ravages of the bacilli that beset the ten-cent magazines, Mr. Petersen, for instance, has caught the--Red Blood Craze. His cattleship story called "Murph"--well-constructed and boldly written and vivid as it unquestionably is--is too full of perspiration and profanity and filth. Mr. Petersen's leading character has nothing distinctive about him, excepting an odor like a New England...