Word: virgonem
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...poetry the Advocate is more ragged and uncertain. Richard Linn Edsall's "Ad Beatam Mariam Virgonem", adding nothing to mediaeval hymns in sentiment or diction, is noticeable for its subject matter among the vapidities of current taste, which undergraduates are fairly quick to imitate. Byron Cutcheon's "Requiem for the Poet" contains three good lines among a number of bad ones. "April Fool!" by Stuart Ayers is the best contribution in verse, disposing the manners of the day in four effective quatrains printed zigzag down the page. "My Pleasant Celia" is agreeable and neatly versified...
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