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...following is the committee in charge of the dance: G. P. Hayes 2G., chairman: P. H. Stamm 1G., W. G. Bean 4G., F. B. Whitman 2G.B...
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...Place," by Mr. Burden, while it contains passages of imaginative glow and dramatic fire, strains plausibility. Even the sub-title, "From an Alaskan Diary", does not entirely persuade us. The "one last, single, long-drawn howl" is too much for us. We receive without accepting. And so of Mr. Whitman's "Shadows of Our Fancy": more poetry than truth, magnificent settings and colorless characters; the shuttle of narrative weaves a gorgeous milieu--and nothing happens...
However, in his "Extracts from the Poetry of Chi Lao", Mr. Whitman challenges achievement. These are Whit manifestly not Chinese: but they are the stuff of poetry. Mr. R. C. Rogers in his "Sonnet" fingers an incoherent loveliness. The octave speaks of "chords that bind", an unfortunate ambiguity; the sestet hovers momentaly on the threshold of beauty; but the poem as a whole is tenuous and inarticulate. The "Winter Night's Spell" of Mr. Best plucks an old lute. We cannot help wishing there were more lines like these...
...rather I believe I am acquainted with her terrible grammar. As a matter of fact, personally, I am very much against vers libnre and all that sort of thing. Of course I admit Walt Whitman was a very great man; but I insist that metre is not an unnatural thing, but an extremely natural thing, like the sing-song of a child, you know, kicking his heels against a wall...