Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beta Kappa Oration and Poem, Sanders Theatre...
...Sanders Theatre exercises: Oration, Edward Campbell Aswell '26; Poem, Charles Allen Smart '26; Ode, Almon Goodwin Cooke...
...Pops concert program for tonight, Tufts night, will be as follows: Cortege from "The Queen of Sheba" Gounod Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolar Fantasia, "Fedora" Giordano Tufts Songs Overture "Euterpe" Chadwick Symphonic Poem, "Finlandia" Sibelius Carnival in Paris Svendsen Tufts Songs Ride of the Valkyries Wagner Waltz "Estudiantina" Waldteufel Wedding March Mendelssohn
...years at the Perkins Institute, Boston, where he was Helen Keller's contemporary and friend. Casting about for an occupation, he tried music, piano-tuning, chair-caning, but resolved finally upon lecturing and poetry. Recognition was slow. He once received $1.65 for a talk delivered to 13 people. His poem, "How Massa Linkum Came," later a popular favorite, was refused by 17 editors before the Springfield Republican accepted...
...about including anything so "heavy." That the Legend of the Drums drew a few guffaws on Graduates' Night, is no proof that it will be laughed at before a starch and chiffon audience in fact, to the contrary. The Legend of the Drums is not only an excellent narrative poem, but it fits in admirably with the spirit of the play. If an audience is forced to laugh too much it gets tired of laughing...