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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is here much surprisingly good verse, better indeed than I remember to have seen in a single issue of any other American publication. The Sapphices of Mr. Cummings are very fine poetry: the thought is straightforward and clear, the wording is singularly euphonious--as in a Greek meter it should be--and the rhythm expresses, while restraining, mature emotion. Mr. Hillyer's second sonnet on Antinous is richly conceived and adequately expressed; the reading of it gives me intense pleasure, in particular the remarkable sestet with the "Imperial hosts upon disconsolate seas." "The Tree of Stars" and "A Renaissance...
...Every wee or so however, special exhibits of paintings, water colors, or etchings are procured and placed there-the exhibit this week being a fine collection of Albrecht Durer's prints. The very proximity of these exhibits is probably one reason for students not taking advantage of them. A word to the wise is sufficient...
...illustrious sequence of Wendell, Storer, Brickley, and Mahan has been added the name of Gilman, as captain of the 1916 eleven. Judging by his past performances he has the qualifications that will enable him to preserve the watch-word of "Going Up" in respect to scores against Yale, difficult as that task will be in view of this year's score...
...immovable upper lip, and by another of a throaty growl in his Sophoclean larynx There was an entire lack, to me, of all moral or personal influences. I look back with a certain pathetic commiseration on myself, unwarmed for the whole four years by a single act or word expressive of interest on the part of those to whom my education was intrusted. And this is literally true. The element of personal influence was entirely lacking. No instructor or officer ever gave me a pat on the shoulder physically, morally, or intellectually...
...point out another side of the case, less often dwelt on. It is true that the country needs the military power of its college men, and has a peculiar claim upon them. It is also true that the college man needs the military training. Let me say a word about that...