Word: poems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five, Old Ironsides is the closest to being seaworthy. She was condemned as far back as 1830, but Oliver Wendell Holmes so stirred Americans with" his famed poem that Congress appropriated money for repairs. Now berthed in the Boston Navy Yard, she is about 90% restored (a good part of the money was donated by citizens), and a favored shrine for sightseers...
...wrote Mahatma Gandhi, "is the mother to millions of Indian mankind. She is a poem of pity." By tradition and training, many another devout Hindu through the centuries had assumed the same attitude toward the beasts who roam India's city streets and country lanes by the millions. It is a statutory crime in India to kill a cow. In 1944 a high-caste Hindu, who accidentally let one of his own cows strangle herself, was forced to roam the streets for three days with a halter around his neck, mooing for food and forgiveness...
...years later a sub poem for his appearance was issued by the Un-American Activities committee and then withdrawn. In 1950 both the New York Dally News and columnist Fulton Lewis published articles repeating the spy charges against Glasser. As the Rutgers faculty committee which later reviewed the case pointed out, this long series of incidents apparently developed a feeling of harassment in Glasser's mind and a sharp antagonism toward investigative groups...
...Class Day program today will begin with a prayer by the Rev. E. Spencer Parsons, Acting Chairman of the Harvard Board of Preachers. Following the prayer, Joseph O. Mitchell will deliver the Class Oration, and David P. Chandler will read the Class Poem. The traditionally humorous Ivy Oration, co-authored this year by John G. Benedict and David Schwarz, will follow...
Following LaFarge's address, John L. Sweeney, poet and curator of the poetry rooms, delivered a poem, "An Arch for Janus," written for the occasion. In homage to Henry Adams, it was inspired by the line "All experience is an arch, to build upon," in "The Education of Henry Adams...