Word: poet
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduate members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will celebrate their victory over the Yale chapter by attending "A Brazilian Honeymoon," followed by a supper at the Lombardy Inn tomorrow night. H. A. Larrabee '16 will be toastmaster, W. M. Horton '17, the society's poet, will read a poem, and J. A. Emery '17, K. B. Murdock '16, W. Silx '17 and R. Cutler '16 will speak...
Phillip W. Thayer in "A Transfigured Julia" gleefully hits off the capricious changes of fashion in girls: "Lissome Julia anatomically slight," "Robust Julia, playing golf and swimming harder," Suffrage Julia "prances in the [poet's] limelight." Witter Bynner is not up to his poetic form in "Though Wisdom Dies." Wisdom is a theme which cannot be completely developed in two short stanzas nor can imagination be "uncurled small as forget-me-nots." The characteristics of the verse of this number are cleverness, insight, a sure, light touch, and a sense of the sober humor of the contrasts of life...
...Head of the Poet Laureate" is a tale in which Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, and one Giles Hemming plot, preach, and elope, respectively. The idea is well bandled; Mr. Nes is perhaps least fortunate in his dialogue, a strange mixture of modern phrases and what is apparently intended for seventeenth-century English. It may be doubted whether a Devon peasant ever could have said "how him an' me kin write verses an' ring a bell t' any tune." The story is nevertheless entertaining...
...only creating another chaos. Specialization in a certain field is, of course, of importance for the graduate student. But I cannot see how an undergraduate can enjoy Virgil without learning to appreciate the language, the rhythm, the imagination, the patriotic fervor, and the human characteristics of the great poet, whose vitality cannot be extinguished even by the wave of our modernism. We must not make Tacitus merely an object of linguistic or literary or historical study to a man who reads him for the first and, probably, for the last time, simply because Tacitus is great in all these fields...
...that insisted on being uttered--though this criticism applies to a good deal of the verse in the present number. Mr. Sanger's "Panama Canal," though less imaginative than some of the others, is clear in conception, vigorous in expression; and Mr. Cutler is again charmingly witty in his "Poet's Lament." His last stanza reminds us that we ought to be grateful that the issue contains no "free" verse...