Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daphnia, is in a red-brick house next to the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science's garden. He likes to recall that this garden, surrounded by a high spiked fence, was planted by the late Dr. Frederick B. Kilmer, a trustee of the college and father of the poet who wrote Trees...
Columnist Thompson was the commencement speaker at all three colleges. Abreast with her for first place on the 1937 kudos list was solemn Critic Van Wyck Brooks, whose Pulitzer Prizewinner, The Flowering of New England, brought him Litt.D.'s from Bowdoin, Columbia and Tufts. Vassar's Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay got a Litt.D. from Colby, an L.H.D. from New York University. Two LL.D.'s apiece went to Cordell Hull (University of Pennsylvania and Yale), New York's Special Racket Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey (Tufts and the University of Michigan), new President Frederick Harold Stinchfield...
...days later, Vanderbilt lost another landmark as courtly little Poet John Crowe Ransom (Grace After Meat), co-author of the famed agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand and a pillar of Vanderbilt's English department for 23 years, took a job at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. When his fellow poet and agrarian, Alumnus Allen Tate, wrote an open letter of protest to Chancellor Kirkland, Poet Ransom explained that small, hustling Kenyon had offered him, besides more time for writing, $5,000 a year and a house as against Vanderbilt...
John G. Winant, former Governor of New Hampshire, will be the orator, and plans have been made to broadcast his oration over state W1XAL. The poet will be Daniel Sargent '13, Instructor in History and Literature at Harvard...
...open to the public, will begin at 11:30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. John G. Winant, former Chairman of the Social Security Board and former Governor of New Hampshire, will be the Orator; and Daniel Sargent '13, Instructor and Tutor in History and Literature, will be the Poet. Samuel Williston, Dane Professor of Law at Harvard and President of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, will preside...