Word: poem
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...Secretary of the Faculty, at University 20. The Bowdoin Prizes include: three for undergraduates and three for graduates for dissertations in English; two for undergraduates and one for graduates for essays in Greek and Latin. Manuscript is also due today for the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize for the best poem entitled "Belgium"; for the Harvard Menorah Society Prize; for the Francis Boott Prize for an original composition in vocal music, and for the George Arthur Knight Prize for an original composition in instrumental music...
Tomorrow is the last day for receiving dissertations and essays for the following prizes: the Bowdoin Prizes for original composition in English, Latin, and Greek; the Harvard Menorah Society Prize; the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize for a poem entitled "Belgium"; the Francis Bott Prize and the George Arthur Knight Prize for original composition in music; and theses of candidates for the degree of Ph.D. in 1915 in the Division of Ancient Languages, of Modern Languages, and of History, Government, and Economics. It is also the last day for receiving applications of candidates for second-year lionors, and the names...
...Bowdoin Prizes, ranging from $250 to $50 and including a bronze medal, for dissertations in English, Greek and Latin; the Francis Boott Prize of $100, for the best composition in concerted vocal music; the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize of $100 and a silver medal, for the best poem on the subject of Belgium; the Menorah Society Prize of $100, for an essay on a subject connected with the work and achievements of the Jewish people; the George Arthur Knight Prize of $30 for the best composition in instrumental music...
There are few more appalling, pernicious, and thoroughly reprehensible tendencies in modern times than banner bearing. In the light of modern investigation we clearly see that the young man in Longfellow's poem, "Excelsior," who bore a "banner with a strange device," was a dangerous fellow, who richly deserved to be lost among the snowy peaks, banner and all; that Betsy Ross should have devoted her time to knitting mufflers; that Barbara Freitchie was a foolish lady to risk her old gray head; in short that banners should be scrupulously eschewed -- especially red ones...
...sympathetic and hero-workshiping than inspired. Next is a sonnet by Mr. E. E. Cummings, about as cryptic as undergraduate sonnets are apt to be, and that is saying a good deal. After this comes a fairly amusing and lively story, "Bluff," by "B." Mr. R. S. Mitchell's poem, which follows, "From the Arabian Nights," is the best verse in the number, a pleasing experiment with the difficult Spenserian stanza, though, as we say in "Composition," courses, conspicuous more for "elegance than force." "When the Suspenders Came Off," a seasonal sketch, by Mr. Ben Sion Trynin, is the largest...