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...poet, tonight, it is the life rather than the poems of Longfellow that I, as the spokesman of his fellow townsmen, am drawn by affectionate memory chiefly to celebrate; more mindful of the sweeter secret which lies within the melody of his verse than of its outward rhythm and rhyme...
...spirit such as the author, if we may judge by his name, comes honestly by. The metre of line eleven halts badly and is easily amended. The author of "The Lecture-Tasters" is moderately funny; but here and there he is led too far astray by the exigencies of rhyme. An editorial sets forth the difficulties inherent in a prompt and satisfactory election of Freshman class officers. It is hard to see how the "rough-and-tumble estimate of the class," that used to be got on Bloody Monday, could be of service at such an election...
...rest of the contents, the verse is better than the prose. "The Dream-Palace," by J. Hinckley '06, has a light and delicate fancy and no little beauty of expression: though here and there invention flags, and metaphor and word are drummed up at the exigencies of the rhyme. "Chanson," by H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07, has the charm of simplicity. The stories in the number are poor. "The Play" is an elaborately constructed rack whereon are hung a few, sometimes effective jokes. "The Adventure of the Young man and the Spasmodic Lady" and "The Curious History of a Selfish...
...lighter verse, more often bears the stamp of maturity and permanence. The verse in the issue, "The River Wall" and "To the Evening Star," avoids the common fault of mistaking obscurity for suggestiveness, and is moreover, exceptional for its musical fluency, delicacy of thought and happiness in choice of rhyme. The editorials are timely and pointed, but beside these, the prose in the issue merits little praise...
...Pity" by F. C. Gulick is an introspective sonnet which loses much by the obscurity of its symbolism and a bit of awkward phrasing. In "To a Stuffed Owl" and in "The Interval," W. Bynner has shown his versatility. "What the Sea Shell Told" is a pleasing bit of rhyme, but has no claim to originality of thought or treatment...