Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MURDER PROTESTANTS AND DESTROY AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IS THE OATH BINDING ROMAN CATHOLICS There was also a poem, entitled "Alcohol Smith's Platform," of which this verse was typical...
Exceeding Small is the way in which the mills of God grind, as stated by Friedrich Von Logau in a much misquoted German poem.* In this play, the first offering of the Actors' Theatre this season, the mills ground a girl, Gert, and a boy, Ed. Ed, who earned $20 a week, married Gert. On his wedding night, he discovered that he had a weak heart and would soon die. The idea of suicide came to him like an inspiration or the thought of a journey. Gert did not wish to live any longer either; so Ed closed the window...
...umbrella", and the "Mischmasch". The former is a little book done by Lewis Carroll while at Eton, charmingly written and illustrated, and of double interest because most of it has never been published. The "Mischmasch" was written by Carroll while at Oxford, and contains the first verse of his poem the "jabberwocky" which was not published until 25 years later. There is a translation of the words in the first verse showing how they were formed. As this has never been published, and explains one of the author's most famous poems, its value cannot be over estimated...
...some portion of the faculty is throwing its weight about a little too promiscuously--and the prompt announcement of the discovery in print. I am profoundly ignorant of the situation exposed by Mr. Breaksbread and Mr. Marlow, and quite unable to pass judgment on their exposition. Certainly, their poem is amusing and their gay malice irresistible. An editorial suggests some hesitation, on the part of the board. None, it seems to me, is called for. The production justifies itself; it voices a typical Harvard impatience, whether well or ill founded makes no difference, and directs a perfectly legitimate undergraduate criticism...
...Colleges, alternate Fridays, 11:30 a.m. Nov. 2, Emotions in Music; Nov. 16, The Overture; Dec. 7, Stringed Instruments; Dec. 21, Flute and Clarinet; Jan. 11, Oboe, English Horn and Bassoon; Jan. 25, Horn and Trumpet; Feb. 8, Trombone and Tuba; March 8, 22, Percussion; April 12, The Symphonic Poem; April 26, May 10, The Symphony...