Word: poems
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...examples of serious Advocate verse have shown less straining after effect or more real beauty of simplicity than "The Sculptor of Milos," by Charles Wharton Stork. The central idea of the poem, it is true, seems on a second reading, falsely dramatic, and is not justified by the scant explanation of its motive; yet the ease of the lines and the unfailing interest in the thought go a long way toward helping the reader to overlook this defect. Another piece of verse, "March in Massachusetts," by L. W., makes one wish to drop work and get into the country...
...will be held in the American House on Monday evening, March 23. Tickets at $1.50 each will be placed on sale at Leavitt's and the Union during the latter part of the week. It has been decided to have some member of the class read a humorous class poem at the dinner, and any man who wishes to submit a poem should send it as soon as possible to R. Sanger, Claverly...
...Sargent prize of one hundred dollars is offered as usual this year for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace. The poem selected this year by the Department of Classics is the thirty-fifth Ode of the first. Book, Undergraduates of Harvard College and of Radcliffe may compete...
...itself, falls into the error of condemning the good for the sins of the bad. The second editorial, an appeal to the serious minded for a right understanding of the "College butterfly," is very seasonable. The longer contributions are all in prose with one exception, "The Two Wreaths," a poem in three stanzas, delicate in thought and unfaltering in rhythm. "Philanthropists Unwitting" would read better if it were not curiously reminiscent of an earlier story of similar plot where a sacred volume interleaved with money is treated instead of as here "Elementary Aesthetics." "A February Catastrophy," by its lively dialogue...
Bookman -- "Love's Waiting Time" (poem), by Curtis Hidden Page...