Word: poem
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...truly claim his all. Just as a river passes by and serves towns and forests, but does not turn aside from its course toward the great calm of the sea, so the soul, allowing and providing for necessities, still makes its only aim union with the infinite. A poem, to be understood and appreciated, must have one central theme; in the same way life must have its one great purpose and aim or the whole is meaningless and confused...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize, consisting of $100 and a silver medal for "the best poem on a subject or subjects annually to be chosen and announced by a Committee of the Department of English" will this year be given for a poem on the subject of "Progress." Each poem should not exceed fifty lines, should bear an assumed name, and should be accompanied by a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer and superscribed with the assumed name. The prize is open only to undergraduates of Harvard College...
...fall athletic number of the Illustrated devotes an editorial, seven articles and a poem, directly or indirectly, to athletics, two articles to business and industry, and two to topics of special interest within the University. Football naturally absorbs most of the space, but cross-country and fall rowing come in for a share. No fault can be found with these proportions, since this is professedly an athletic number...
There is genuine fire in the poem entitled "The Game," by F. B. T. '13. Instruments of precision would doubtless show, in the case of any reader, measurable results on his respiration, circulation, and muscular tension, thus taking the question of the merit of the poetry out of the field of opinion and into the field of fact. The magnitude of the results thus measured, however, would depend in part upon the sensitiveness of the reader, and in part upon his experience in the game...
...best thing in the number. "Applied Economics" is another story in which a discourse on trusts sends its auditor to sleep. It is rather a descriptive sketch than a narrative; and it is not without its good points. An unsigned allegory, called Viae Vitae", might be called a poem; it is well-written, but mournfully pessimistic...