Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps. We are inclined to think otherwise. Granted, the faithful painting of folly; granted, the momentary amusement. We still fail to find in his heetic, meteoric career anything permanent, anything constructive, or even anything literary. Keats, in one of his letters, speaks of Lord Byron's latest "flash poem", much as Barrie, for example, might speak of Fitzgerald; yet the flash poems of Byron are deep philosophic treatises compared with Fitzgerald's outbursts. Not that every story should be expected to bear its moral or illumine its great Truth...Heaven for-fend!; but certainly something more than the surface flush...
Baband, "La Procession Necturne", Symphonic Poem (after Lenan...
...pastor of the Mount Vernon Church, Boston, gave his second talk to members of the Freshman class yesterday evening at 7 o'clock in the Smith Halls Common Room. R. P. Bullard '24 led the singing which preceded the address. Dr. Lovett, who took for his text Kipling's poem "The Pioneer", emphasized the fact that the trouble today is that we have dared to stop thinking in our religious life. "There is no hypocrisy," he said, "greater than that of living in an age of material progress and at the same time existing in a religious stagnation...
...youngsters. Games were played; then the "kiddies" enjoyed three reels of a "movie" comedy. Then each orphanage performed a stunt for the benefit of the rest. Several groups sang songs. One of the little Russian boys in the uniform of a Junior Boy Scout recited very impressively a poem which was an expression of gratitude to the foreigners who had adopted and befriended the refugee peoples of Russia. About 4.30 the ladies of the community served refreshments to the children. When they returned to the auditorium the Christmas trees were lighted and Santa Claus arrived with a toy for each...
Today is the last on which poems may be mailed to be considered in the Poetry Society of America prize competition, $100 to be awarded for the best poem by an undergraduate of any American college or university. The name and address of the author must be on every page or the manuscripts, which must be mailed before this evening to Mr. Haniel Long, 5559 Beeler street, Pittsburg...