Word: readings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Robert Frost, author of "North of Boston" and "A Boy's Way" will be the guest of the Poetry Society at a meeting to be held in the Advocate Sanotum on the third floor of the Union tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mr. Frost will read from his works. He is known as one of the best of the younger American poets, his work having been highly praised both in England and America. This is the first of a series of readings and talks to be given under the auspices of the society by prominent poets and critics...
...hope that Harvard will have not only the admiration, but the affection of her sister universities. At my inauguration President Hadley referred to me as the President of our greatest University, which shows that to a certain extent we have the affection and admiration of other university already. You read the other day now Yale had of her own initiative disqualified five athletes for unwitting infraction of amateur rules, and you read that Harvard begged Yale not to do it. You may think that is quixotic, but I maintain that it is the true spirit of sportsmanship among gentlemen...
...Poetry Society was formed at a meeting held last night in Wadsworth 5. The membership is to be limited to those who actually write poetry, and who are members of the University. Others may be elected honorary members. Poems are to be read anonymously at the meetings, and criticised. The society will publish a volume of poems during the year; will entertain well-known poets, and will arrange for readings by them. Members are to be elected after the next meeting, which will be in the Advocate Sanctum on Monday evening...
...Odell Shepard was elected temporary president, and committees were appointed as follows: To select poetry of members to be read--E. E. Cummings 1G., S. F. Damon 2G., and S. V. Fairbanks '17; to draw up the constitution--P. F. Kirby 2G., G. P. Sanborn '01, and T. Nelson...
...they should have the benefit of the doubt; next, because they are men whose word amount those who know them is taken without question. Nor should their ignorance surprise anybody who has closely observed youth. A printed rule forbade their receiving board; probably not one of them had ever read the book of rules. If students read--and remembered--all the printed matter made accessible to them by the college office, there would be an immediate cut in the price of college administration. Year in and year out with consequences varying from embarrassment to dismissal, students get their information...