Word: poems
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Perhaps the best piece of writing in the number is the poem on "The Bold Subscription Man" which fits in well with a current popular air. The parody is unusually clever, and the characteristics of the "subscription fiend" are well depicted. Next in merit is "The Goody Destructa," another animal from "Lampy's Menagerie," which is fast growing to a fine and entertaining collection...
...David J. Brewer, LL.D., Association Justice of the United States Supreme Court, will deliver the commemorative address at the Yale bi-centennial celebration which will be held in New Haven next October. Edmund Clarence Stedman, LL.D., will deliver the commemorative poem on the same occasion...
Lippincott's -- "A Palaeolithic Wooing," by S. M. Whitcomb '80. "When Sprucewood Sleeps," a poem, by F. S. Palmer...
...Junior Class Dinner will be held at the American House, Boston, on Friday, March 15, at 7. p. m. C. Platt, 3d will be toastmaster, and A. Hollings-worth will read the class poem. The following toasts will be responded to: "Football," D.C. Campbell: "The Crew" H. Bullard, "The Class," E. Lewis; "The Track," J. H. Willis; "The Press," P. W. Thomson; "Debating," R. C. Bruce; "Baseball," E. H. Kendall. The design for the menu was furnished by E. B. Ahlborn...
...selections of verse are all short but rather better than usual. A short ode, "To the Dandelion," by H. M. Ayres, is a pretty little bit of verse with a light rhythm that suits the subject well. "Sea Gulls," by R. W. Page, is a more rugged poem. The verses have a wild ring that is very suggestive. "An Eagle's Feather," by A. D. Ficke, is short, but in its single stanza it gives a wide range of imagery which is dazzling in effect...