Word: witter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contest was open to undergraduates of all colleges in the United States. Over a thousand manuscripts were, submitted, coming from colleges and universities in 28 states. The judges were Mr. Witter Bynner '02, well-known playwright and former assistant editor of McClure's Magazine; Mr. Arthur Davison Ficke '04, author and poet; and Mr. Haniel Clark Long '10, of the Poetry Society...
...Hartranft, Stanford, 48ft. 6 1-8in.; second, Merchant, California, 44ft. 10 1-2in.; third, Witter, California, 44ft. 8 3-8in.; fourth, Bronder, Pennsylvania. 44ft 7 1-4in.; fifth, Thomson, Princeton, 43ft...
...Hartranft, Leland Stanford, 46ft. 2 5-8in.; second, 89, Merchant, California, 44ft. 10 1-2in.; third, 777, Bronder, Pennsylvania, 44ft. 7 1-2in.; fourth, 104, Witter, California, 43ft. 7 3-8 in.; fifth, 830, Thomson, Princeton, 43ft. 6 3-4in.; sixth, 498, Jordan, Yale, 43ft...
Through the Poetry Society of America, a prize of $100 is offered by Mr. Witter Bynner '02 for the best poem by an undergraduate of any American college or university...
...McVeagh, for his picture of Wordsworth at "cross purposes with nature," goes the palm for the verse of the number; in fact these unpublished utterances of the Lake Poet should most assuredly go into the next collected volume of Advocate verse. One might quarrel with Mr. Witter Bynner ('02) for disturbing buried desires; for no sooner has the Editorial with Common Sense buried King Spirits than along come most enchanting pictures of Cantors, with numberless grapes and Bacchus with "viney patterns of the veining of his nose." After that the Freudian wish is no more and the sole remaining bottle...