Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While an undergraduate at the University, he was a literary editor of the Advocate, "Ibis" of the Lampoon, and winner of the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize for a poem entitled "Tripoli". He remained at the University two years after graduation as an assistant in English...
...prominent University professor once described the reading or "Beowulf" as an "intellectual luxury" for any man not seeking a doctor's degree in English. To the scholar this poem is more of a pleasant interest than a required task-but one which very few students find time to enjoy. Much the same attitude has often been taken towards the attendance of college chapel. The student finds it hard to make time enough at nine o'clock in the morning for religious exercises, even though he may recognize the benefit to be derived from them. Consequently, he never acquires the habit...
...Every poem (the number is generous) in one way or another asserts the Dane. From Oehlenschlager, who is perhaps the most inexorably national, to Jensen, who is proudly nostalgic, the collection celebrates Denmark. Oehlenschlager sets the filial tradition. Everything must be Danish. for landscape, beech forest and the blue Sound...
...Franck, Symphonic Poem, "Le Chasseur Maudit" ("The Wild Huntsman...
First prize, $75, to D. C. Peattic '22 for poem entitled "Broken Wings...