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...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for his picture of Wordsworth at "cross purposes with nature," goes the palm for the verse of the number; in fact these unpublished utterances of the Lake Poet should most assuredly go into the next collected volume of Advocate verse.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...
...list of Advocate poets is long, but among them may be named Conrad P. Aiken '12, Harold Bell '07, John F. Brice '99, Witter Bynner '02, John Corbin '92, Lloyd McKim Garrison '88, Hermann Hagedorn '07, Edward Hale '79, Lawrence Stevens '01, and Langdon Warner...
Phillip W. Thayer in "A Transfigured Julia" gleefully hits off the capricious changes of fashion in girls: "Lissome Julia anatomically slight," "Robust Julia, playing golf and swimming harder," Suffrage Julia "prances in the [poet's] limelight." Witter Bynner is not up to his poetic form in "Though Wisdom Dies." Wisdom is a theme which cannot be completely developed in two short stanzas nor can imagination be "uncurled small as forget-me-nots." The characteristics of the verse of this number are cleverness, insight, a sure, light touch, and a sense of the sober humor of the contrasts of life...
...Beta Kappa oration at Commencement will be delivered by Professor Josiah Royce, Ph.D., LL.D., and the roem by Witter Bynner '02, author of "An Ode to Harvard, and Other Poems." The exercises will be in Sanders Theatre at the anniversary meeting held during Commencement Week...
...Randall '12, G. H. Roosevelt '13, J. R. Sibley '12, F. B. Thwing '13, R. D. Whittemore '13; from the Andover Theological School, C. E. Carter 1A., P. King 1A.; from the Divinity School, R. L. Howard 1Dv., C. R. Johnson 1Dv., L. D. Somers 2Dv., T. V. Witter 1Dv.; from the Medical School, W. G. Lenox 1M., C. W. Lieb 1M., L. T. Nelson 1M., H. O. Peterson 3M.; from the Dental School, H. D. Cross, Instr., S. E. Fanforth, Jr., 3Dn., L. A. Storz 2Dn. Professor E. C. Moore of the Divinity School, J. M. Groton...