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...save it. "At a House Party," by Clarence Britten is an attempt to tell one of the author's too-subtle, evanescent short stories in verse; it does not "get there" enough to make it quite worth while. Mr. Thayer's "Adieu" is graceful and meaningless; the "Thoreau" of Rollo Britten is the best verse in the paper. It says something with force and phrasing. Paul Marriet's "Crepuscule" moves those who knew him, if only by the memories it evokes...
...verse, I prefer Rollo Britten's "The Little Boy at the Sea Shore," with its suggestion of Blake to the Swinburne Poe-Henley grimness of "Faith Lies Sick." Arthur Wilson's "By a Window" contains one epithet which justifies it. I do not believe that Schofield Thayer's "Amica" exists in his imagination, much less in his experience; she is only a creature of his vocabulary. J. D. Adams's "The Greater Sunlight" conveys to me neither image nor idea nor emotion. The use of the word "lambent" should be forbidden to Monthly poets for the space of one year...
...meeting of the Monthly last evening the following regular editors were elected: Rollo Herbert Britten '13, of Cambridge; Cyril Beverly Harris '13, of San Antonio, Tex., and Gilbert Vivian Seldes '14, of Philadelphia...
...Rollo Ferdinand Hunt...
...Nussbaum '08, and I. L. Sharfman '07, of whom E. R. Lewis '08 was awarded the Coolidge Prize. This team was also coached by E. M. Rabenold '04. J. C. Cadwalader, of New York, presided at the debate; and the judges, Professor J. B. Clark of Columbia University, Mr. Rollo Ogden, editor of the New York Evening Post, and Professor T. C. Trueblood of the University of Michigan, rendered a unanimous decision for Princeton. Of the 13 debates between the two universities, Harvard has won eight and Princeton five...