Word: poems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tuesday. Walter Brigham Phillips of Boston was president of the day. The exercises in the chapel were as follows: History of the class, by George Richmond Parsons of Providence, R. I.; prophecy, by Judd Ellis Bulley of Waverly, N. Y.; oration, by John McKinstrey Merriam of South Framingham, Mass.; poem, by Frank Anthony Luques of Biddeford, Me. The exercises closed with "Auld Lang Syne." The usual exercises about the class tree then occurred. In the evening a brilliant reception was held. The number in the class is 31; whole number in the school...
...attempt, however, to characterize Mr. Hudgens' poems indelibly by the utterance of a single word or by some Sphynx-like expression is as much an indication of imbecile intellect as of caustic invidiousness and of childish attempt to gain a Delphic credence. It can be done with no more justice in the present instance than that one should take a poem of Byron's lighter vein and pronounce Byron weak, or that one should call Longfellow childish because he had once allowed his Muse to play about the heartstrings of youth...
...book in the style of the blase dilettante and brand it forever with such meaningless phrase as we have before mentioned. A careful student, however, of the work, and one who is willing to see its beauties as well as to underscore its faults, will recognize in the first poem, "Exeter," many passages that are excellent and far above the average of undergraduate effusions...
...picture of the quiet and peace of the ocean scene is a delicate piece of painting that strikes one strongly with its deep tinges of classic spirit, and makes one think of Homer. In truth, there is throughout this poem a healthiness of sentiment and grace of form that bring into only too unpleasant relief the affectation and crudity of some of the others...
...poem, "A Vision," shows an earnest sympathy and intensity of feeling, but has unfortunately many marks of artificialness that jar upon the reader but still do not affect him very strongly, inasmuch as he feels that the artificialness exists only in the phrase and not in the poetic current...