Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sills, is capable. The salt, seafaring atmosphere created by particularly excellent photography places the picture easily in the first ten of the year's releases. The Girl I Loved. Charles Ray has returned. His current medium is a play adapted (freely, after the manner of moviewrights) from a poem of James Whitcomb Riley...
...Wade and Boylston prizes was held last night in Sanders Theatre before a large audience. The Wade prize of $50 was awarded by the unanimous decision of the judges to Oviatt McConnell '23 of Buffalo, N. Y., who read for his piece Rudyard Kipling's dramatic poem, "Gunga Din". Eli Allen Smith '25 of Worcester received the first Boylston Prize of $35 for his selection, "Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln" by Henry Watterson, while the second prize of $25 went to Norman Edwin Hines '23 of Portland, Conn., who read John Bright's "Faith in the People". It is interesting...
...sailed as a steerage passenger on the White Star liner Majestic, disillusioned but cheerful. At Ellis Island one of the attendants jokingly inquired for his baggage. "Everything I own is on my back," said Larkin. "I'm like the man in Whitman's poem: 'Free and light-hearted I take to the open road...
...Carl Sandburg is the focal point of Chicago literary life. He breathes Chicago. He is Chicago. If you would understand that banging, sweeping city with its stockyards and its shining lakefront, read The Windy City. No poem, perhaps, ever epitomized a city so successfully. Sandburg is tall, stooping, quiet, his voice, hesitant and booming. To explore Chicago streets with Sandburg on a summer day is to learn the spirit of the town...
Today is the last opportunity for submitting manuscripts in competition for the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize. The writer of the best poem on "The Striker" will receive a prize of $125 and a silver medal. The compositions must be handed in before 5 o'clock at the office of the secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 9 University Hall...