Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern readers could recall even the name of any 18th Century U. S. poet. Of the 19th Century, only three names are still respectfully remembered: Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson. Of the U. S. poets which the first third of the 20th Century has brought to birth, modern readers could name a dozen who are fairly well-known: T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robinson Jeffers, Edgar Lee Masters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E. E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Conrad Aiken. Which, if any, will still be remembered by the 21st...
...Perry, 3rd '40; Frederick Reinstein '37; J. West Roosevelt '39; J. Willard Roosevselt '40; Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. '38; Morton S. Robbins, Jr. '40; Royal E. Robbins '39; Edward Robbins, Jr. '40; Wheeler Sammons, Jr. '37; Kenneth W. Sterling '40; David Stilles '40; Charles M. Storey, Jr. '37; Robert T. Whitman '38; and Hugh G. Williams...
President of the League is Robert L. Johnson. Vice-presidents include James R. Angell, Newton D. Baker, Charles C. Burlingame, Robert Catherwood, Howard R. Guild, William B. Hale, Ogden H. Hammond, A. Lawrence Lowell '77, George McAneny, Charles P. Taft, 2nd, and Russell Whitman...
...Hindemith became concertmaster of the Frankfort Opera, but was conscripted for the army shortly afterward. There he served as a drummer because he had no training in brasses. After the Armistice Hindemith returned to Frankfort to compose. He concentrated on chamber music, also wrote settings for poems by Walt Whitman, ballad cycles, strange discordant operas with such names as Murderer, Women's Hope, The Nusch-Nuschi (for marionettes), Sancta Susanna...
Howard L. Blackwell, Jr. '39 was second in the Boylston prizes, and Willard M. Whitman, Jr. '39, third, each receiving...