Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Trafford, the president of the class, presided, and shortly before dessert was brought on, he introduced the toast-master of the evening, J. A. Wilder. Mr. Wilder made a short speech in his official capacity and then introduced the poet of the evening, S. F. Batchelder. After the poem, J. D. Upton responded to the "Varsity Eleven," L. A. Frothingham to the "Varsity Nine," Captain G. H. Kelton to the "Varsity Crew," and C. R. Bardeen...
...March Century with its sixteen prose articles and ten poems besides four "Topics of the Time" and four "Open Letters," contains an unusually varied assortment of subjects and styles. The most interesting articles should have been the two on Paderewski, one "A Critical Study," by William Mason, and the other "A Biographical Sketch," by Fanny Morris Smith, but unfortunately the former is so technical in its vocabulary as to be almost unintelligable to one not familiar with musical slang, while the latter, though it contains most interesting facts, many of which have not before been in the possession...
...poetry of the number is poor, with the exception of Aldrich's poem. "My Enemy," by Alice Williams Brotherton, and "Love and Life," by Julie M. Lippmann...
...three years later took his degree at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was afterward admitted to the New York bar. but soon turned his attention to literature. When in college he was an editor of the Advocate and wrote the Pudding poem and his class ode. In 1887 he travelled extensively in Ireland, and on his return published a book, "In Castle and Cabin," which was widely read and favorably commented on both in this country and in England. It was warmly reviewed in several English magazines, in one instance by the well...
...Walhalla" is a warlike lyric of the old Norse mythological days. The poem mirrors well the rough poetry and god-strength of the life depicted. "Age and Youth" by J. T. Stickney is, curiously enough, a poetical expression of certain ideas which Charles Dudley Warner gave vent to in the last Harper's. The poem - for it is a poem, rather than mere verse - shows promise...