Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oration is given during the afternoon of Class Day in the Stadium. It follows the Class Oration, Class Poem, and Ode which are given in the morning in the Winthrop-Kirkland squash court triangle...
...Tuesday, Dai Buell is to be soloist in the Liszt Concerto for pianforte No. 1 in E flat major. Sibelius's symphonic poem, "Finlandia", will also be played...
Birthday, Poet Edwin ("The Man with the Hoe") Markham: 84. Said he to Princeton University's English Department, his birthday hosts: "When you finish a good poem, you must be able to say 'ah,' as though you were hit in the solar plexus...
...nearby Waynesburg, seat of Greene County, want a similar monument to General Greene. When he asked $300 for the job, Waynesburgers hotly replied that they did'"not propose to give him the whole county for his work," hired a local craftsman. Painter Blythe retorted with a long poem in the Uniontown newspaper criticizing Waynesburg's manners, clothes, public houses, beds, women. A Greene County poet replied in angry verse, drawing from Blythe a counter attack in which his adversary was compared to a pumpkin, Greene County to a "sow grown fat with buttermilk and meal...
...capacity of Sanders by 500, this huge audience was jammed in the aisles, at the sides of the hall, and even along the edges of the lecture platform. So many wanted to hear the last lecture in the current Charles Eliot Norton series, entitled "After the End of a Poem," that fully 400 people had to be turned away...