Word: poem
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announcement was made of the winners of two of the Bowdoin prizes, and also of the winner of the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize. Brent Dow Allinson '18, of Chicago, Ill., won the latter prize of 100 for a poem entitled "To Josiah Royce." This prize was established by the Class of '88 by an endowment in memory of their classmate, Lloyd McKim Garrison, for the best poem on a subject to be chosen annually by a committee of the Department of English...
Passing over a couple of poems, one of which, "The Hours Between," has a certain tenuous charm, we come to "Aunt," a fairly successful character study in the conventional English A manner, and to "A Farewell to Epicurus. The latter is a skillfully-phrased and academically admirable poem of Mr. Hillyer's, but somehow lacks the verve and passion of most of his verse. "The Wound," a little further on, by Mr. Wright, is without a doubt the most striking thing in the number. Reminiscent as it is of the work of a contemporary Irish writer, it still...
...Beta Kappa oration and poem will be delivered in Sanders Theatre at noon on Monday, June 18. In the evening of the same day the Senior spread and dance will be held in Memorial Hall...
...regular Class Day exercises will begin at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning, with chapel services in Appleton Chapel. The exercises beginning at 11 o'clock in Sanders Theatre include the class oration by Alan Grant Paine '17, the poem by Westmore Willcox, Jr., '17, and the ode by John Daniel Parson '17. The tree exercises will be held near Holden Chapel in the Yard at 3.30 o'clock in the af- ternoon. After this ceremony, exercises will begin in the Stadium with the Ivy oration delivered by Hunt Wentworth '17. There will be songs by the Glee Club, organized cheering...
...classed with writers like Rupert Brooke, Harold Monro, and Walter de la Mare. With a little more intensity of mood, he might even suggest Ralph Hodgson, for he has at times a distinct trace of Hodgson's mystical vision. But the closest resemblance of all, in this particular poem, is to James Stephens, of whom there is a very good reminder in the touch, in the last stanza, about the "lone...