Word: poet
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...McAdie. Samuel Gilman, always a somewhat obscure though memorable figure, is described by Mr. H. W. Foote '97. The article includes an account of the ante-bellum relations of Harvard and the South, where Dr. Gilman eventually went to live. He was the author of "Fair Harvard" and a poet of some contemporary reputation. He studied theology at Harvard, and became we are told a most human and warm-hearted divine. The University honored him with the degree...
...Sanders Theatre on Monday, June 19, at 12 o'clock. Professor Theodore William Richards '86, Ph.D., S.D., LL.D., Chem.D., Erving Professor of Chemistry, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year, will be the orator, and Robert Frost, author of "North of Boston," will be the poet. The floor and first balcony will be reserved for ticket holders until a few minutes before the program begins. The general public is cordially invited to attend, and particularly undergraduates, the presence of whom is greatly desired...
...Putnam '18, and "Song of Night," by J. T. Rogers '18, are both excellent examples of meter, but there seems to be something lacking in them to take away the mechanical feeling. "The Shepherd" of W. Willcox '17 is certainly not equal to the other works of this poet, nor does "The Tryst" by W. H. Nes uC. make any valuable addition to an anthology of American poetry. R. Cutler '16, however, proves his capability in the vein of humorous verse by "Why Give Her the Ballot?" This little poem is very much worth while, and the closing couplet...
...quality of this brief anthology is surprisingly fine: surprisingly, though one had been prepared, by Mr. Noyes and others, to find it good, and unusually good. The technique is not everywhere faultless; but in what poet, save the very greatest, does one find it so? Ask the scholars. The point of view is prevailingly the point of view of youth; but it is not anywhere naif, or impertinent, or pseudo-cynical. The literary vices of youth are miraculously absent. The tone is curiously sustained, too, without monotony; as if the contributors had been real collaborators, such brothers-in-blood...
...recent lecture delivered at the Shakspere Tercentenary Celebration at Princeton, Mr. Alfred Noyes, the famous English poet, and a professor at Princeton, advanced a new theory regarding the immortal "Hamlet" of Shakspere...