Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...anecdotes, serving as contributions of fiction, are the merest amiable trifles, though Mr. Peterson's work again declares his rare faculty of careful observation of outer nature and of personal emotion. In "Lost at Sea" Mr. Gilkey has wasted his finished metrical technique and his vivid sense of the rhythm of blank verse upon an incoherent story of a poetical cabin boy marooned upon a desert island by an ogre-like sea captain. Had the poem been long enough to admit of an explanation of the captain's hatred, the narrative might at least have seemed possible...
...squad went to Red Top on Monday, June 12. The order to the University eight remained the same until last Saturday when from 4 to stroke, changing places with Goodale. This change was made to improve the rhythm and finish and seems fully justified. On Tuesday the eight rowed a trial over the four-mile course in 20 minutes and 26 seconds...
...morning E. Curtis was put in at stroke, sending Trumbull back to 2; Cromble was dropped to the four, taking Curtis's place. The crew paddled down to the three-mile mark and the improvement in the rowing showed the advantage of the change. Curtis has fine rhythm and should accomplish much in getting the crew together as a unit...
...verse in the number, as well as the prose, is marked by sincerity, but it is curiously inarticulate. For once the poets seem to have had more to say than they were able skilfully to express in rhyme and rhythm. We have that rare thing in college verse the substance more interesting than the form...
...been very poor. Scarcely enough men have reported at either boathouse to form two crews, so the development has necessarily been slow. Both boats have shown a tendency to hang at the catch, and space poorly, but the Newell crew has been together longer, and therefore has a better rhythm and can keep the shell on a more even keel. A number of the men rowed on the same dormitory crew, and their improvement in the last few days has been more rapid, so that the Newell crew is expected to win. The orders of the crews for the race...