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...group of books and pamphlets both by and pertaining to the late Vachel Lindsay has been placed on view in the Poetry Room on the top floor of Widener Library. These works are part of a large collection of the late Amy Lowell, which was given to Widener Library after her death...
Died. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, 52, famed poet (A Handy Guide for Beggars, The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems, Rhymes to be Traded for Bread, Every Soul is a Circus); of heart disease; in Springfield, Ill. Born into a pioneer Springfield family (he was later to become preoccupied with local history, with Springfield's Abraham Lincoln), he studied for the ministry at Hiram College (Ohio) then at the Chicago Art Institute and the New York School of Art. From 1905 to 1910 he did Y. M. C. A. work, lectured for the Anti-Saloon League. Rugged, unkempt, Poet Lindsay liked...
Hiram College celebrated last Week the 100th anniversary of the birth of its second president, the 20th President of the U. S. Hiram has today 364 students, 27 professors, one of the youngest presidents in the U. S.-Kenneth Irving Brown, 35. Its alumni include Poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (ex-1901), Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva of Zion City, Ill., Board Chairman James Anson Campbell of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., Cleveland Banker George York. On its quiet campus, one of whose buildings is the College's original Main Hall, the celebration took place last week with fitting eclat...
...chosen. Last year F. F. Wilder '32 won the Lee Wade Prize for Elocution with his rendering of Calvin Coolidge's speech before the Massachusetts 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...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson and Long Island's Walt Whitman are doubtless the foremost candidates, with a few critics ranking California's Robinson Jeffers ahead of either. Robert Frost and Edwin Arlington Robinson are other candidates from New England. Carl Sandburg is the Midwest's best voice. Vachel Lindsay catches the whole jingle of American speech, and Stephen Vincent Benet caught last year's Pulitzer Prize. Last week at Columbia University a candidate for U. S. Poet was proposed who was no U. S. citizen, who never visited America or wrote about it, but whose works every...