Word: poems
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...four verses, the best is "Jericho at Sunrise" by A. D. Ficke '04. The imagery of "Fair Harvard," a short poem by C. P. Kendall '02, is marred by the unfortunate fact, which the author overlooks, that grapes do not grow on trees. "Armor," by W. Bynner '02, is a pretty little meditation about love containing nothing original or new. A sonnet by H. M. Ayres '02 aims high and nearly reaches the mark...
...York Herald recently offered prizes for the best rhymed translation of "La Couse des Grands Masques" a poem on automobile racing, written by Gaiten do Moauine for the Paris "Cadet." The first prize of five hundred francs has been awarded to George Allan England '02. A second rendering by the same author using American slang terms, was given honorable mention...
...drama abounds in particularly fine lyrics which bear comparison with some of Swinburne's best work. Taken as a whole, "The Masque" shows great maturity, and, coming so soon after Mr. Moody's powerful poem on "Washington and the Colonial Army," is a great proof of the author's fertility and promise...
...principal contribution to the November Monthly is a poem, "Prometheus Pyrphoros," by J. T. Stickney '95. The poem is an attempt to imagine what was contained in a lost play by Aeschylus. The versification, however, which is almost entirely of blank form, does not follow the model of the ancients. Instead of ten syllables to a verse there are more often eleven, with now and then a passage in rhyme. The style as a whole is very subtle and obscure. The basis of the poem is the fable of Prometheus: He attempts to bring light and fire to the people...
...Beta Kappa (Harvard Chapter.) Business meeting. Harvard Hall, 10 a. m.--Oration by William Everett, LL.D.--Poem by Clinton Scollard, A.M. 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 Massachusetts Hall, where dinner will be served. Tickets for the dinner at Sever's bookstore