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Peter Morton Whitman '32, of Katonah, New York...
...reveals deep appreciation and true understanding admirably supported by sound sesthetic standards. "Poetry and Poets," which may be considered one of the last autheritic utterances of the old New England school of liberals, contains among other things, Miss Lowell's views on "Poetry, Imagination, and Education," Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and D. R. Lawrence...
Miss Lowell's criticism of Whitman and Dickinson is, on the whole, conservative. She laments the narrowing shelter of Miss Dickinson's friends and points out her great art in "presenting movement." For the author of "Leaves of Grass" she has no superlative praise, but commenting on his writing she declares it is poetry "because he approaches his subject from the poetic point of view." Then comes this significant addition, "what makes a literary work prose or poetry . . . is a matter of approach and of return. By return I mean some device by which a poem is brought continually back...
University Relay--First College team: H. deW. Wood '30, R. D. Fallon '33, Addison Love '33, B. S. Wood '33: Second College team: R. C. Whitman '33, J. S. Hartwell '32. T. R. Jameson '33, W. B. Stedman '33, Law School team: M. H. Miller 31. E. K. Djerf H. H. A. Loeb H. G. R. Kain...
...Born in Switzerland, Composer Bloch is a U. S. citizen. His last symphonic work, America, is a patriotic outburst in the manner of Walt Whitman (TIME...