Word: poems
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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SENIOR CLASS DAY EXERCISES. Prayer by Rev. Francis G. Peabody, D.D. Oration by Arthur Campbell Blagden. Poem by Julian Hinckley. Ode by Henry Adams Bellows. Sanders Theatre...
...BETA KAPPA (Harvard Chapter), Business meeting. Harvard Hall, 10 A. M.--Oration by Professor E. C. Pickering, Poem by George Cabot Lodge, Esq. Sanders Theatre, 12 M. The public are cordially invited to attend the exercises in Sanders Theatre. At the conclusion of the exercises the Society will march to the Harvard Union, where dinner will be served. Tickets for the dinner at Sever's Bookstore
...especially of that period of the College when all the undergraduates knew one another and the College papers had not acquired too much dignity to enjoy running a few pointed personal "roasts." Again, many of the selections are decidedly above the average of undergraduate verse, for instance, Garrison's poem "On the Skull Ensconced in a College Room" which is doubly sinister when one remembers the early death of that promising poet...
...first 800 verses of Aeschylus' poem, most of them in the form of choral odes, make a kind of moral prologue. It may sometimes seem to us that the plot does not advance with sufficient rapidity; at other moments the author seems to bridge over the past and present, disregarding the unity of time. He makes Agamemnon appear at home the morning after Troy was captured. This, Dr. Verrall and other critics consider a monstrous heresy in regrad to unity. But the sheer length of the choral odes creates a sense of the passage of time, so that no incongruity...
...Monthly, the ninth and next to last issue of the College year, are as follows: "Athletic Duty", by N. Kelley '06; "The Agamemnon of Aeschylus", by C. T. Ryder '06; "And She I Love so well Is Dead", by H. Spencer Sp.; "Serge Witte", the Lloyd McKim Garrison prize poem for 1906, by R. E. Rogers '09; "Song of Fra Basilio", by H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07; "De Coelo", by J. H. Wheelock '08; "Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native'", by W. L. Stoddard '07; "Shalott", by C. H. Dickerman '07; "Malcolm", by c. H. Dickerman '07; "Malcolm...