Word: writers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...entire poem, though it does not keep up to this high level, is notable in its sincerity and vigor. Mr. Pulsifer's "The Riderless Horse" presents a striking idea with effective brevity, the difficult verse-form is fairly well handled, and the phrasing is at times admirable. The same writer's "Third Down," however, suffers from its close resemblance to four lines of Browning's "Meeting at Night...
...Bellows, in the leading article, dis- cusses clearly and cogently a subject the importance of which no one will question, "Harvard Admission Requirements." The writer aims "to point out certain things in the present system which appear to produce bad results, and to determine what subjects the College clearly ought to require for admission." Members of the Faculty, as well as undergraduates, may well read this article with attention. The Editor of the Monthly, however, in his comments on the subject, is mistaken in thinking that "the citadel of election" may already have fallen. Neither President Lowell, nor the Faculty...
...name of the writer must not appear on the essay, but must be sent by the same mail in a separate letter. This letter must contain the writer's name, class, college and home address. The essay must be mailed flat, not rolled...
Francis Barton Gummere, a delegate from Haverford College; a man of letters with a command of literature profound and wide; delightful writer on the origin of English poetry, whose love of song has made the history of song more lovely...
...present board into the condition of Lampoon humor. "To an honored few of you," speaks the oracle, "will undoubtedly come the honor of rejuvenating the Great University Comie." This prophecy so modestly expressed, may be only a pious hope; let us humbly pray, however, for its fulfillment. The writer of the editorial has expressed a divine truth. Rejuvenation is exactly the variety of transformation which, we should say, was the Lampoon's most crying need. We do not ask for great originality. The College field is too limited. We merely plead that some-one endeavor to lure from the verdant...