Word: poem
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Page after page of the poem deals with undergraduate life from the inside, from the 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...
...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...
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...
...four poems the most powerful is undoubtedly Mr. R. E. Rogers' "Tschaikowsky," which has been awarded the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize. All of the verse is distinguished by unaccustomed lucidity. Mr. J. S. Reed's "Bacchanal", which might fairly be called a fine poem, has considerable charm, though, it occasionally falls into some of the faults to which this species of writing is liable...
...current number of the Harvard Illustrated Magazine is admirably edited. It contains three articles on University matters of contemporary interest, one on a subject of much importance to men choosing their careers, a poem, a story, and editorial, and a book review. The proper balance between topical and general themes is seldom so fortunately...