Word: songs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second football mass meeting of the year will be held in the Living Room of the Union next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock, Captain E. W. Mahan '16 and L. H. Leary '05 will speak on the team and the Princeton trip. A new football song will also be sung for the first time...
Freshman choral singing will be organized this fall similar to that carried on last spring. A competition is announced for songs which should be suitable to sign at interdormitory contests. The best song handed in from each dormitory will be selected, and on-vote of the members will become "The Hall Song...
There will be no regular football song competition this year, but all men who wish to write football songs are urged to do so, and to hand them in to W. J. Bingham '16, Stoughton 26. Songs should be handed in as soon as possible, in order that they may be learned before the big games...
There are five poems in this issue, all of them above the usual ideal of space fillers. Mr. Hillyer contributes two; a "Song" and a "Threnos." The "Song" is an exquisite bit--rhymeless, but using the same terminating words for each stanza. The "Threnos" is a sudden cynical outburst of still more interesting form; the lines of the first stanza become successively the refrains of the following stanzas. Mr. Cummings contributes a "Ballade of Soul," a true ballade--of a more complicated type, however, than generally seen. Yet Mr. Cummings, for all the limited number of rhymes, makes his poem...
...Willcox '17 seem to be from the viewpoint, at least, of impressionistic criticism--the three most deserving poems. "Off to the War" has a splendid swing and military air. The other poems are "Dusk," by Mr. B. P. Clark '16; "The Pine Grove," by Mr. W. A. Norris '18; "Song of Spring," by Mr. A. Putnam '18; Mr. Putnam's "The Forest" and his "Liberty," and "Their Lots," by Mr. J. Gazzam '17. The current number is certainly a bargain for the lover of poetry; he can buy it there almost by the wholesale...