Word: poems
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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From anything so lovely it is difficult to make selection of loveliness. The whole poem is a succession of exquisite pictures and images, where such lines as these...
...beautiful exterior of Mr. G. E. Woodberry's "North Shore Watch" is eminently in keeping with its title and opening poem. The white back and marsh-green covers convey the very impression of wave foam and low white clouds upon sedgy pastures and weedy north shores...
...coorister. The success of the dinner is greatly due to Messrs M. Williams, I. N. P. Stokes, and W. K. Flint, who acted as committee of arrangements. Mr. Hale's oration was loudly applauded both for its excellence as an oration and for the sentiments which it expressed. the poem was full of hits and gave occasion for much mirth. The dinner broke up with the '91 cheer...
...poetry of this number of the Monthly is of an unusually high standard. "Thornrose" by N. Stephenson is a suggestive poem with vigor and motion. "An Egyptian Fancy" by B. Carman is graceful and pretty. It has far more poetic spirit than most college verses...
...prizes in the senior class at Princeton have been announced. They are as follows: first prize, $100, for literature and oratory, Edgworth B. Baxter, Georgia; second prize of $50 for oratory. Francis Palmer, Maine; third prize of $30, for oratory, Walter Lowrie, Pennsylvania; prize of $50 for the best poem, Harlie W. Hathaway, New Jersey; first prize of $40 for best written disputation, Robert T. McCready. Pennsylvania; second prize of $30 for disputation, Henry K. Delinger, Pennsylvania...