Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mention of poetry makes most men itch. Not until poetry the thing has been sent again & again to the critical laundry would most self-respecting readers wear it next to their skins. Modern poets have always raised a storm of apprehensive, defensive abuse. Wordsworth was condemned for his prosiness, Whitman for his barbaric yawp, Browning for his obscurity. But readers of 1936 think they have a better case against their poets than more ancient moderns did against theirs. Nervous readers, cornered and made to listen to the spoutings of W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Stephen Spender, might fall asleep...
This remarkable young man turned up in the East in 1922 on the brake rods of a transcontinental freight train. Son of a poverty-plagued Presbyterian minister, he odd-jobbed his way through Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash., washing his own clothes, living at times in a tent. Burning for a big university degree, he arrived at Columbia Law School with 6? in his pocket. Before he graduated high in his Class of 1925 he had written a legal text book for a correspondence course. In his last year he taught three courses on the side...
Robert Taft Whitman '38, of Greenwich, Connecticut, was announced as winner of the Sophomore Competition at the same time. He will be first assistant manager next fall, and first manager in 1937. Whitman prepared at St. Mark's School...
...Whitman Wins...
Professor Charles Cestre will lecture on Walt Whitman this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Sever...