Word: poem
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...administer the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize announces that it is possible to offer the prize for the first time, this year instead of next year as was originally announced. The sum of $100 and a specially designed medal will be given to the author of the best original English poem of 40 to 60 lines, written on one of the following topics: The Balkans, The Immigrant, Harvard College, The Strike-breaker, The New Japan, Charles Russell Lowell. Competitors are entirely free in their choice of form and in treatment of the subjects. The competition is open only to members...
...courtesy of the editors of the Harvard Monthly the successful poem will be printed in that magazine and will be counted as two of the four contributions essential for election as an editor. Statements differing from this as to the relation of the Harvard Monthly to the prize have been printed under a misapprehension...
Bishop Vincent described in detail the faith of a true Methodist, and particularly emphasized his absolute dependence on God, citing in contrast Matthew Arnold's poem, "Self Dependence." The remainder of his talk was devoted to reviewing the principal emphases of Methodism...
...Bang gave a recital of scenes from Henrik Ibsen's dramatic poem, "Peer Gynt," last evening in Sanders Theatre. Before the recital Mr. Nikolai Sokoloff, violinist, accompanied by Miss Olga Lycche, rendered two compositions by Grieg, and Miss Olivia Dahl, dressed in native peasant costume, sang folk-songs from Norwegian literature...
...Peer Gynt," one of Ibsen's early works, displays the characteristics peculiar to his later and more mature dramas. The underlying theme of the poem consists in the obligations which all youth must meet, and the inevitable results of avoiding them...