Word: poems
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Beta Kappa oration at Commencement will be delivered by Governor Charles Evans Hughes, of New York, and the poem by Rev. Henry Van Dyke h.'94, Professor of English of Princeton University. The exercises will be held in Sanders Theatre June 30, 1909, the day after Commencement...
...verse is very much better. The first stanza of Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez's "The Game" is as good as any undergraduate verse one is likely to see in a long time, and the entire poem, though it does not keep up to this high level, is notable in its sincerity and vigor. Mr. Pulsifer's "The Riderless Horse" presents a striking idea with effective brevity, the difficult verse-form is fairly well handled, and the phrasing is at times admirable. The same writer's "Third Down," however, suffers from its close resemblance to four lines of Browning's "Meeting...
...whole, the number is praise worthy as a presentation of material clearly representative of undergraduate thought on a subject of immediate interest. The weakness of the stories is offset by the vigor of the verse; and Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez's poem alone is enough to give the number distinction
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT. Soloist: Miss Florence Larrabee. Sanders Theatre, 8 P. M. Program: Tschaikowsky, Symphony in F minor, No. 4; McDowell, Concerto No. 2, for Pianoforte and Orchestra; Richard Strauss, Tone Poem, "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks...
...sale at George H. Kent's University Bookstore. Single tickets may also be purchased at the door of the theatre. The program for this evening's concert follows: Tschaikowsky, Symphony No. 4 in F minor; MacDowell, Second Concerto for Piano and Orchestra; Richard Strauss, Tone Poem "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks." The soloist will be Miss Florence Larrabee...