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...history in the mornings; in the afternoons they learned how to ski, tend cows, or run a blacksmith's shop. There were no rigid schedules of weekly exams, no report cards-not even football teams. After hours, students were urged to strike out on their own projects, e.g., sonnet-writing, musical composition, working with wrought iron. Nor were the sexes kept apart. Said one recent alumnus: "There is no 'problem.' After you've worked all afternoon around the stable with a girl, the Hollywood romance gets taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: O Pioneers | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...SONNET FROM ASSISI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: PHYLLIS McGINLEY'S SAINTS WITHOUT TEARS | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...threat, casement, grass, world, into a poetic whole which is the best piece of creative work in the issue. As for the other poetry, two pieces by Walter Kaiser, from the Garrison Prize Poems, reveal a fine sense of imagery and a fluid style. Winifred Hare has written a sonnet...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: The Advocate | 6/4/1954 | See Source »

...also discusses poetry as a key to one's consciousness. Though these concepts are not unusually profound, Matisse's expression is readable and interesting; and unlike many essays of this type it rarely gets tangled in metaphysics. In the latter part of the essay, the author discusses a Mallarme sonnet and this part perhaps could have been left to the more curious eyes of the Humanities grader...

Author: By Byron R. Wien, | Title: The Advocate | 4/15/1954 | See Source »

...Where, in a famed sonnet and famed historical boner, Poet John Keats got him confused with the conqueror of Mexico, and gave "stout Cortes" the credit for discovering the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peak of Glory | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

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