Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual winter dinner, which will be held on Saturday, December 5 in Memorial Hall, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the chapter. Commemorative exercises will be held at 12 o'clock in the morning in Sanders Theatre, and will include an oration by Paul Shorey '78, a poem read by Hermann Hageman '07, the presentation of the keys by President Lowell to the newly elected members, and short program by the Glee Club...
Strause, "Ein Heldinieben," Tone Poem, Opus...
After this slight Apologia Pro Columna Sua we must turn to grander things. Tonight in Sanders Theatre the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play Strauss's. "Ein Heldenleben," a "Tondichtung," or in simplified terms "A Hero Life" a "Tone Poem." Out of deference to the artistic spirit the Vagabond will not launch into his usual scholarly criticism. He is willing, may desirous, of abiding by the composer's dictum that, "There is no need of a program. It is enough to know that a hero is fighting his enemies." That is the crux of the whole work; bear it in mind...
...long blank verse narrative (or rather, psychological drama), Matthias at the Door is a typical Robinson poem. Matthias is an oaklike man, successful, preeminent, proud. The world envies and respects him; his few friends are fond of him, though they see his pride is vanity...
...married her. He died soon after, broken hearted and without an heir. That ephemeral immortal, Ted Lewis, sings a fetching song called Moonlight Madness, which has to do with a beautiful evening, a beautiful moon and a beautiful girl. And once an extremely decadent romantic conceived of a poem that began "If all the stars were pretty babies and I was the man in the moon...