Word: vachell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Claire Windsor arrived in New York-her first visit to Gotham. Born in Cawker City, Kansas, she had never been east of the Mississippi before. After seeing Civic Virtue, Mayor Hylan and Greenwich Village she may well be ready to cry, with Vachel Lindsay: "Ho for Kansas, land that restores...
GOING-TO-THE SUN-Vachel Lindsay-Appleton ($1.75). Mr. Lindsay is not crazy. But in the very excited intensity of his sanity there is a sort of madness. His verse shouts and capers in a boisterous exuberance of imagination. He flings images at you-talking flowers, magic roosters " that no storm can tame," amiable mountain cats, comets. The longest and most flaming of all these poems is called So Much the Worse for Boston...
...following is the program for the Lee Wade and Boylston Prize speaking contest, which will take place this evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre: R. A. Zinn '24, "Boots", Rudyard Kipling N. C. Fassett '22, "The Congo" Vachel Lindsay B. A. Trustman '22, "Repiy to Hayne", Daniel Webster Oviatt McConnell '24, "My Last Duchess" Robert Browning C. W. Phelps '22, "The Power of Motive", Frederick Aobisoha (Intermission of five minutes) M. P. Lichauco '23, "The Voice of the Philipino People", Manuel Quezon A. W. Lewin '24, "On the Wire", Robert Service J. C. Shoe '23, "Recognition of Soviet...
...Fassett '22,--"A Negro Sermon: Simon Legree", by Vachel Lindsay...
...custom. The poet is born, not made. He has within him the 'urge of the eager' which needs no routine training. In college the poet is usually shy, for an individual is repressed, but the type advanced. You have a very good school of young poets here in America. Vachel Lindsay in his poem 'General William Booth enters into Heaven,' shows the ability of this group. Mr. Lindsay ventures to go one step further than Walt Whitman, joining melody to realism...