Word: poems
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...looking over the Acta Columbiana for July 12, when some familiar verses in the "Exchange Notes" caught my eye. The editor had a discussion of college verses in general, and first a compliment to, and then a grind on, "Harvard Poems" in particular. He is very severe, but chooses as a "remarkable exception" and "real poetry" a beautiful little poem published in the Crimson some time ago, "Blonde and Brunette." His next choice, he says, "deserves an honorable place in college poetry," though published where he "would by no means have looked for it." namely, in the Vidette. After...
...father nor Father Reilly wished me to go to the Public Schools, on account of the low standard of social position. I studied by myself. By blacking boots, I earned enough to buy Bohn's translation of the Iliad, and was entranced with the beauty of that noble poem. I entered in 1876, and since then I have done nothing but study. I have left college only once, and that was on St. Patrick's Day, when my father's society gave a free lunch...
Then the Editor danced round his sanctum, and laughed right merrily. "Aha! aha!" cried he. "I'll please them all." So he wrote an editorial on Harvard Indifference, cut down the articles and the poem, and threw the correspondence on janitors into the waste-basket; and yet the paper was full, while the other college editors had to write their papers themselves that week. The next morning there was a poster on the front of University Hall, and great was the sensation in the college...
WOULD that my enemy would write a poem! We were in hopes that the Vassar Miscellany would contain a poem, that we might have a chance to return a kiss for a blow; but, alas! her only poems were quoted from the Crimson. If, however, we were to venture a criticism upon her review of our sonnet, we should say that the physiological ignorance which she displays is alarming in a college girl...
...Here, Mr. Mashem," she said, "is a poem that you wrote for me in those sunny days. Listen!" Mashem looked a little discouraged as she read...