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WALT WHITMAN'S POSE-Esther Shephard-Earcourt, Brace...
Last week Mrs. Esther Shephard (Paul Bunyan) advanced a new theory to account for Whitman's change. She says that he read George Sand's The Countess of Rudolstadt. The epilogue of that typical romantic novel tells of a seer who dressed in humble clothing, preached the doctrine of man and in his inspired discourse composed "the most magnificent poem that can be conceived." Deciding to do the same thing in Brooklyn, says Mrs. Shephard, Walt spent the rest of his life "imitating, in his dress and utterance, a character in a French work of fiction...
...that this theory leads Mrs. Shephard into difficulties is an understatement: it practically floors her. Pursuing it with the vehement, triumphant air of a gossip on the trail of scandal, she gives pages of evidence that Whitman contradicted himself-which he never denied- pages to show that despite his professions of all-embracing love he had explosions of temper, pages to show that he wrote a lot of nonsense and that his disciples wrote even more...
...contested. To date the experienced trio of Captain Tommy Campion, Torrey Baker, and Jerry Hunsaker, are slated to get the starting call. However, Jim Doughty, captain of the Yardlings last year, Frank Downey, Gordy Halstead and Jess Willard will see plenty of action, judging from their present performances. Irving Shephard and Charles Hammond are fairly secure in the home positions...
Gordon Chase Streeter '34, of Stonington, Connecticut, has been elected president of Phillips Brooks House for the coming year, Peregrine White '33, retiring president, announced last night. It was revealed at the same time that Malcolm Shephard Knowles '34, of West Palm Beach, Florida, and Richard Glover Ames '34, of Wayland, are respectively the new vice-president and secretary-treasurer...