Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON campaign has been officially named "American Students for Raising the Monitor." It seeks to rally students and other patriotic citizens to the cause of preserving the Ironclad as a National monument. A public statement in the form of a poem (printed above) has been composed by leaders of the campaign as the opening salvo...
...loose ends after the war, he trekked west to San Francisco and took a job as watchman at the U.S. mint. On the side, he read Gibbon and Pope, minted an acrid style of his own. In 1867, he managed to get a grisly romantic poem published in the Californian, and from then on journalism, more accurately, invective journalism, was his business...
...Class Oration is traditionally a serious talk, while the Ivy Oration is a humorous speech about the class. The Class Ode, sung to the tune of "Fair Harvard," is led by the Class chorister. The Class Poem, read by the Class Poet, is generally reminiscent in character...
Conducted by Thomas A. Lehrer 3G, the author of a recent poem about the sculpture, the religious services were to be highly symbolic of the "cosmic forces that move the universe." The vernal equinox actually occurred at 5:24 a.m., but Lehrer said that those participating in the affair felt that hour to be too "un-Christian...
...moved certain members of a school board that they named a Detroit grammar school after Guest. Because he figures that "if something happens to me, it must happen to other people," Guest tries to write his verses out of his own experience. But the strain of turning out a poem a day for half a century is beginning to tell. Says Guest warmly: "If anybody'd give me a new idea, I'd kiss...