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...Senate in January, 1914. At the same time D. D. Lloyd '31 was awarded the Boylston prize for his recitation of "Byron" by Vachel Lindsay. W. H. Melish '31, who rendered "A Peace Worth Preserving" by Wilson, and J. L. Ware '30, who recitated "The Passing of Arthur" by Tennyson won the two other prizes. The 1929 competition was won with declamations of selections from older authors, such as "Orpheus and Eurydice" from Virgil's Fourth Georgic, in Latin, and a selection from "Gyrano de Bergerac." The names of those who will judge the speakers have not been announced...
...alumni, and largely a joke among those who are presumed to practice and revere it. Recently a good many institutions have seen fit to abandon the scheme, confessing that modern youth is too matter-of-fact, if not too cynical, to be persuaded by the chivalrous concepts of Alfred Tennyson...
...Cost $36,393,011, upkeep $2,104,185 per year, speed 23 knots, major weapons nine 16-in. guns, armament sufficient to ''withstand the simultaneous explosion of four torpedoes," designer Sir Eustace Henry William Tennyson D'Eyncourt who during the War was chairman of the British Admiralty Committee which produced the first tank...
...MacDonald decided last week that the very man for Laureate is a person whom Queen Victoria would certainly not have considered fit for admission to the royal household (her Laureates were Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Austin...
...command or even celebrating national occasions with a fitting verse. That interpretation of the office is today scarcely entertained outside the United States. When Wordsworth accepted the post he did so with the understanding that nothing of the sort would be required, and he held it on those terms. Tennyson to some extent revised those terms of his own will, and composed a good deal of court poetry...