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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Auden's verse is becoming more intense by concentration upon political symbolism, but its intensity does not penetrate the consciousness of the mass of readers because his syntax is still involved, his imagery still "metaphysical" in the XVIIth century sense. Nevertheless, there is vast improvement in communication over previous volumes. One can understand these poems. The poetry of Auden is no longer the Chinese puzzle it was when it first began and when an aristocratic damsel in his "literary senate" gave her applause in those incomparable words, too funny to be other than apocryphal: "I feel Mr. Auden's poetry...
...respectively; and in English, Romance Languages, Fine Arts, and Biology, which show losses of 30, 18, 15, and 15 respectively. The fields of Economics and Government showed similar gains in the past two years, and the fields of Romance Languages and Fine Arts have shown losses in the previous three years. On the basis of the June figures, the field of English held first place in the number of concentrators, followed, as in past years, by Economics; the field of Government attained third place, replacing History, which held that position in the previous year. As a result of changes...
...proportion of degrees awarded with honors in special subjects is approximately the same as in the previous year,--31.1 per cent as compared with 31.9 percent for the year 1934-35. The number of men who received honors in general studies, however, is only 27, or 3.1 per cent of the total, as compared with 40, or 5.3 per cent last year. The proportion of all degrees awarded with honors, including both those in a special field and in general studies, is, therefore, less than in 1934--35. During 1935-36, 34.2 per cent of the degrees granted were awarded...
...previous years, a number of promising candidates to whom National Scholarships could not be awarded because of lack of funds or who just fell short of meeting the standards were awarded regular College or Harvard Club scholarships. In this way twenty-three of the "runners up" were given freshman scholarships...
Midyear period or no midyear period, this world of ours continues its irresistible progress toward perdition. Herewith we append a brief survey of events in the world today, which, depending on your previous condition of servitude, you can lay at the door of (a.) the sit-down strikers, (b.) the weather man, or (c.) Madam Secretary Perkins...