Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...number. Though one feels an echo of the Dowson kind of poetry, the echo is passed on with a new voice, a voice not so sickly and more ingenuous. In Mr. W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez' "Clerk o' Cardiff" there's a whiff of good story, an insistent refrain, and a manner of words and rhythms reminiscent of Kipling through Alfred Noyes. "Persicos Odi Puer", a happy immigrant translation from Horace by Mr R. J. Walsh, might perhaps have taken even more advantage of its "freedom...
...meeting of the Freshman class in Lower Massachusetts last night, it was voted to furnish the Class Dinner committee with a guarantee that no excessively disorderly conduct will be permitted at the class dinner. It was also voted to refrain from wearing preparatory school insignia around College...
Most difficult of all to estimate is Mr. Wheelock's achievement in "Sea-Visions." The irregular metre and occasional faulty rhymes ("moan" and "gone," "saw" and "door") are disturbing. The overlapping phrases in the first line of each stanza, on the other hand, and the insistent refrain, "O thalassa, thalassa," are decidedly effective, and only fail to be completely successful, perhaps, from the fact that they seem a bit too consciously employed. These, however, are minor faults in a poem which, as a successful attempt to treat a great theme worthily, is decidedly unusual in undergraduate verse...
...hear the refrain...
...class of 1907 abolished the "Bloody Monday Rush". Since then, however, although there has been no organized rush, many small encounters have taken place on that night which have brought an undesirable element from Boston. To avoid this all members of the Sophomore class are urged to refrain from any unusual actions tonight...