Word: poems
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...exclusively of compositions by Harvard men, including a piece by Professor J. K. Paine h.'69, in Sanders Theatre on May 22. This will be in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Pierian Sodality, and Mr. N. H. Dole '74, will read an original poem in honor of the occasion. The University Glee Club, now in its fiftieth year, will sing some compositions by Harvard...
...Beta Kappa oration will be delivered this year by H. H. Furness '88, and the poem by P. W. Mackaye '97. Mr. Furness is one of the greatest living Shakespeare scholars and Mr. Mackaye is a well-known dramatist and poet. The exercises will be held in Sanders Theatre on Thursday, June 25, the day after Commencement...
...rather well told, but the conclusion is obxions almost from the start. "The Conciliator," by H. Edgell, a fish story in New England dialect, and "McVane's Retirement." by R. E. Andrews, the story of a railroad wreck, are decidedly conventional both in style and plot. Mr. Wheclock's poem. "A Work of Art," is a dignified bit of verse, characterized, like all his work, by serious purpose and marked excellence of form...
...verse, Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez contributes a Christmas sonnet in dignified yet not quite comfortable English; Mr. Greene a quatrain, which, like most attempts at packing poetry, wants ease and life; Mr. Aiken a longer poem ("The Spirit of Christmas Eve"), which shows little individuality, and not much responsiveness in vocabulary. Mr. Wheelock appears twice in this number, neither time in a Christmas spirit and neither time at his best. "The Return after Death" is ambitious and in spots effective, but suffers from want of metrical skill and from occasional weakness of word. The "Song," though less faulty, is also less...
...Library has received from Frederick W. Story '73, of Baltimore, a little volume of early sermons of the eighteenth century, prefixed to which is a pamphlet of the greatest rarity. This is Cotton Mather's "Poem Dedicated to the Memory of the Reverend and Excellent Mr. Urian Oakes, the late Pastor of Christ's Flock, and President of Harvard College, in Cambridge. Boston in New-England, printed for John Ratcliff, 1682." This is thought to be Cotton Mather's earliest publication, written when he was nineteen years old, and only one other copy of it has ever come to light...