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Sirs: In your issue of Jan. 18, I notice you refer to Mr. Robert Frost as ''Poet in Residence" at the University of Michigan 1921-23. You may be interested to know that since 1926 Mr. Frost has been Poet in Residence at Amherst College although his title is Professor of English on permanent appointment. He conducts no classes, but meets the students informally. FREDERICK S. ALLIS...
...various specimens of journalistic endeavor that are the product of some of our more august contemporaries, we are lead to the conviction that culture of the collegiate Fourth Estate in the more urban and intellectually polished sections of our eastern United States is highly chimerical. Specifically do we refer to the current front pages of the "Daily Princetonian" and the "Harvard Crimson," whose make-ups bear voluminous descriptive stories of basketball games, alumni meetings, and polo contests, with too infrequent reference to matters of national and international import...
...editorial policy of these papers seems to be bound in rigid provincialism, with an elaboration of current facts and details that merely report events, failing to challenge constructive thought. Editorial discussions refer to the ranking of clubs, liberalizing the curriculum and the normalcy of Phi Beta Kappa students, now and then pausing to this or that professor or this or that athletic team heartily between the shoulder blades...
...During the week a tractor-drawn truck. creaking beneath the weight of 6,000.000 pacifist signatures, hove in sight of the Conference with 15 women seated upon it, each waving a Peace Flag. This tribute the Conference received. Also the Conferees began to refer informally to the U. S. female delegate as "Doc," a tag fastened upon Delegate Mary Emma Woolley, Litt. D., by the irrepressible Will Rogers. To the Press "Doc" said: "I never yet have met a difficulty out of which a way could not be found. Some-thing more than a paring here and there is needed...
...intensity of feeling. His technique is admirable; the spirit behind the verses is genuine. The title poem "See Prayer", and the opening poem, in addition to the final sonnet sequence are splendidly done. The verses always rise above the ranks of mere competence. Perhaps it is unjust to refer to them in this way. Suffice it to say that here are pleasant poems not destined to immortality...