Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcement was made yesterday by C. B. Lakin '30, that the Phl Beta Kappa oration and poem, originally scheduled for Friday, June 20 at Sanders Theaire, will be held there instend on Monday, June 16, at 11.30 o'clock...
...also regarded as candidates. Continually was Laureate Bridges chided for silence, poetical and personal; when he visited the U. S. and denied interviews, one newspaper headlined: KING'S CANARY WON'T CHIRP. Less than a year ago he published The Testament of Beauty, a 4,000-line poem which summed up his patriarchal philosophy, earned the great admiration of most world critics...
...Manhattan last week Conductor Arturo Toscanini abruptly stilled the applause which followed a Smetana symphonic poem, tapped on a cellist's stand for attention and, instead of two trifling Mendelssohn pieces listed on the program, played with his Philharmonic-Symphony the tremendous, soaring funeral march from Wagner's Götterdämmerung. In Philadelphia, St. Louis, Berlin and a score more music centres, were similar scenes and sounds, a world-wide requiem by Wagner...
...Clarence Crane. Hart Crane preferred poetry to business, went to Manhattan (1922), supported life by writing copy for J. Walter Thompson, Sweet's Architectural Catalog, others. In 1924, living in a house on Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, Poet Crane gazed at the Brooklyn Bridge, thought of writing a long Whitmanesque poem on the U. S. While he wrote it he moved about to Paterson, N. J., Isle of Pines (Cuba), Pasadena, Paris, Marseilles. Another book: White Buildings...
...clock--Phi Beta Kappa Oration and Poem in Sanders Theater...