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...Johnny Crimson, a Legend of Hollis Hall," by Percy Wallace MacKaye '97, is a rhyme of some fifteen pages after the manner of "T' was the Night Before Christmas." The tale is a fanciful bit of work. It is the story of a freshman of the class of 1798 who "with heavy reel on tipsy heel," staggers out from Boston to be enticed out of his room by grave yard spooks who lead him a wild dance and conclude by tumbling him into the pump trough "as limp as a lump," "while one young Vandal keeps plying the handle...
...rather an ambitious effort to put this story into rhyme or even into print, for there is nothing extraordinary in it either in point of conception or treatment. Indeed in regard to the latter, one is amused to find now and then the rhyme lapsing into prose. It is hardly possible to predict that the rhyme will command any special interest from students to whom it must be supposed it is meant to appeal...
...poet of the evening was R. M. Townsend whose account of Baron Sahara and The Great Thirst, written in excellent rhyme, was full of humorous allusions. Other speakers were Captain Griffin of the class nine, Captain Forbes of the class crew, and A. Borden. The dinner ended with the singing of Fair Harvard by the whole class and cheers for Harvard and Ninety...
...Ramblinge Rhyme of Dorothy," in old Colonial English, by A. C. Train '96, has a flavor of the olden time about it that is rather pleasing...
...today's Advocate is an improvement on previous numbers;-it contains less poetry. Not only this, but one of the two pieces published is very creditable. "Cpnthia. A Pantoum," by Louis How, has no interest except for the peculiar style of rhyming which the author effects; but the sonnet by Treadwell Cleveland, Jr., is worthy of notice in that it departs from the usual custom of Advocate sonnets and gives evidence of a foundation of ideas and sentiment not wholly obscured by the demands of rhyme and meter. The author has just been elected to the board of editors...