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...sorts, medical equipment, and trophies preserved for generations, were consumed by the flames. But the most valuable articles in the building--a large part of the medical records and the Evert Jansen Wendell trophies--were rescued, and this through the heroism of two undergraduates, H.T. Wagstaff '32 and P.M. Whitman '32, track manager candidate and assistant football manager, respectively...
...immense sombrero, a Mephistophelean red-blond beard and a single turquoise earring. An even better attention-getting device was Personae, published in 1909, in which he first struck the tone of most modern Anglo-American poetry - spare, objective, unornamented, elliptic. Dante, the medieval troubadours, and his pet hate-love Whitman had been his tutors, but he had done the homework of craftsmanship. (In one undergraduate year he had written a sonnet a day.) Though stripped for action, many of Pound's lines still retained the lilt of romance. In An Immorality, he wrote...
Replying to a sample poll yesterday, only two dormitories--Comstock and Whitman--declared overwhelmingly in favor of the proposal. Approximately half of the girls in Holmes and Moors approved the suggestion, with residents of Barnard, Bertram, Briggs, Cabot, and Eliot generally opposed...
...shine-/and t0 hdl with everything else!/That is my motto-/and the sun's!" Snatches of exuberant, pure song survive their pedestrian translation and make Mayakovsky sound like a moujik Whitman...
Previous readings have included poets David Ferry, George Starbuck, Firman Houghton, Ruth Whitman, Stephen Sandy, and prose writer Clive T. Miller...