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Coach Donovan gave the short relay squad somewhat faster work yesterday afternoon over a distance of five or six laps. Captain Bingham led the candidates for the 780-yard team the best part of a mile, lengthening out a bit in the last three or four laps...
...least, with the world's greatest master-pieces of music. Strangely enough, with the progress of civilization, music has become more and more of a minor factor in general culture. The great statesman, Themistocles, was derided because he could not play the harp, yet we are not the least bit ashamed to admit that, with no thought of playing ourselves, the mere listening to music bores...
...juvenile court idea, and with this institution as a background; the author has treated the life of the youthful offenders with such understanding sympathy that he brought forth many such comments as that of the New York press: "Memory fails to bring to mind a more human and affecting bit of playwriting than this modest and unassuming little piece...
There are five poems in this issue, all of them above the usual ideal of space fillers. Mr. Hillyer contributes two; a "Song" and a "Threnos." The "Song" is an exquisite bit--rhymeless, but using the same terminating words for each stanza. The "Threnos" is a sudden cynical outburst of still more interesting form; the lines of the first stanza become successively the refrains of the following stanzas. Mr. Cummings contributes a "Ballade of Soul," a true ballade--of a more complicated type, however, than generally seen. Yet Mr. Cummings, for all the limited number of rhymes, makes his poem...
...disciplined, it might have been easier to share his vision. Mr. Leffingwell's two poems, especially "Mt. Auburn at Dawn," show a lyric talent reminiscent of Noyes. But the best poem, and the best piece in this issue, is "Fog in the City" by Mr. B. P. Clark--a bit of "free verse" by a real poet...