Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred years ago a famous American poet of the day dedicated an ode to Harvard on her Bicentennial; and the fame of the poet, the Reverend Samuel Gilman, has remained very much alive because of that poem, "Fair Harvard...
...City Hall. A master at achieving personal publicity, he once objected strongly to a newspaper article, not because he was described as a thief, but because it said he was born at Waukegan, Ill. instead of in his own First Ward. Forty years ago, reporters took to writing balderdash poems, attributing them to Bathhouse John. Bathhouse John framed the poems, kept them in his office, claimed authorship. The Coughlin poem on Repeal...
Notable at the Whiteman-Philadelphia concerts was a tone poem by Ferde Grofe called Tabloid, scored for orchestra, electric siren, four typewriters, eight revolvers. According to City Editor George Clarke of the New York Mirror, who wrote the program notes, Tabloid had representations of comic-strip characters, a murder, sob sisters and sport writers at work, a whole newspaper going to press. Critics found Composer Grofe's latest work exciting but unmusical, liked best Mr. Whiteman doing good reliable Gershwin. Two nights later the Dell season officially opened, with the audience cheering Beethoven's Eroica as done...
...laws for the benefit of French education, science and children. A heavy cross for Undersecretary for National Education Cécile Brunschvicg to bear is the fact that her immediate superior, Minister of National Education Jean Zay, is a most arrant Radical Socialist, author of perhaps the most defamatory poem ever written about a national flag, the red-white-&-blue French tricolor. It appears impossible for Mme Brunschvicg to keep French moppets from singing in school if they choose the amazing lines of M. Zay. Chorus...
...annual business meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society was held at 8 o'clock this morning in Harvard Hall. Langdon P. Marvin President of the Harvard Chapter, presided. Because of the Tercentenary the oration and poem were not delivered at this annual meeting, but will be postponed until September...