Word: poem
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view of the recent large vote for license in the metropolis, the flow still promises to be as much into Cambridge as out of it. Formerly, Mr. Kline tells us, the student would sit down "in moments of depression and be relieved of his sorrow in a poem or a story for the Illustrated." Does he not still give scope to his feelings in the college literary magazines? Let us only hope that nowadays the undergraduate public does not read his effusions, excellent as they may be. The college literary magazine is made to be written, not read; the healthiest...
...Sargent Prize of $100 is offered for the best material translation of a lyric poem by Horace, to be selected each year by the Department of Classics. It closes...
...bulk of verses shows a healthy interest on the part of the Advocate board, whose president, Mr. W. C. Sanger, Jr., '16, contributes perhaps the most distinguished poem, "To a Young Girl." Mr. Putnam '18, with "Storm," and Mr. Cutler '16, with a translation from Catullus, add good things to the number. In spite of an imitative and derivative air about most of these productions, patent confessions of the amateur's willingness of spirit and lack of skill, there is much promise and considerable present fulfilment. It is somewhat surprising not to find the poets rhyming about matters more pressing...
...Sanders Theatre on the following Thursday evenings: January 13, February 3, February 24, March 23, and April 27. Single tickets for each concert at a $1.00 each are on sale at Kent's Book Store. Symphony No. 2, "Antar" Rimsky-Korsakoff Hungarian Fantasia for Planoforte an Orchestra Liszt Symphonic Poem, "The Island of the Dead" Rachmanioff
...Parson's sonnet Beside the Sea is sufficiently poetic to be promising, though it weakens in the final verse. A weakish end mars also Mr. Sanger's little poem, which has, in general, a pretty movement. Mr. Putnam's Prayer presents a simple and attractive idea in poorly finished verses. Mr. MacVeagh's Treasure Trove is undistinguished. Mr. Leffingwell's Predestined, though faulty in certain details and needlessly long, shows poetic feeling and some sensitiveness to poetic diction...