Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said a super-critic: "If critics who have so carefully laid their round formal wreaths upon Sargent's tomb should discover in these murals some reminiscence of the art calendar, let them not suggest that 'Philosophy' might have been intended as the decoration for a magazine poem; that 'Science Measuring the Heavens While a Young Woman Makes Record' looks like a satire upon the modern Babbitt's indispensable stenographer. Such things are matters of opinion, and the only opinion which has not yet been given upon John Singer Sargent is that of posterity...
Coincidental with the appearance of Cullen's first book came the news from Chicago that he had received the John Reed Memorial Prize of $100. This prize was awarded to Cullen for his poem entitled "Threnody for a Brown Girl," which appeared in the May number of the Poetry Magazine...
Divorced. Laurel Louisa Fletcher Connely, authoress, onetime wife of Author Booth Tarkington, daughter of Stoughton A. Fletcher, famed Indianapolis banker, from Willard Connely, Harvard professor; in Boston. In 1911, when she was suing Tarkington for a divorce, she wrote and published a poem which began: "I wish that there were some wonderful place called the Land of Beginning Again...
...Haverford College (Haverford, Pa.), Charles C. Sellers, senior, was awarded his diploma in absentia. Sellers was, however, present at the exercises, completely disguised as a girl. He heard himself lauded, awarded three prizes, heard the class poem written by him read by another. Explained his mother, Mrs. Sellers: "Charles is exceedingly shy. Also, he has a sense of humor...
...Beta Kappa Oration will be delivered this year by Dr. John Houston Finley, Editor of the New York Times. Arthur Davison Ficke '04 has written the poem and will deliver it at the exercises this morning...