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...favor. Sure enough, Grandpa and Louise took to each other instantly, soon became great pals. Though Louise was a Manhattanite she found herself quickly at home on the farm, won the approval of the neighbors by her ready backchat and friendly ways. She won more than approval from Guy Crane, a rising young married farmer, and from Simon, Grandpa's taciturn farmhand: but she kept things fairly well under control. To make the plotters show their hand Grandpa pretended to go crazy. Unmasked at last, they were shown the door, and Grandpa and Louise breathed easily again. When Grandpa...
...Chase '96, was elected president for the coming year, while L. P. Marvin '98, will be Vice-President. Williard Reed '91, and Crane Brinton '19, were elected Chief Marshal and Corresponding Secretary respectively...
...WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7 (XIII) Chemistry 6 Mallinckrodt MB23 Chemistry 33 Mallinckrodt MB9 Chinese 1 Boylston 26 Classical Archaeology 1b Sever 29 Classical Philology 30 Sever 29 Comp. Literature 19 Harvard 6 Economics A Dr. Anderson, Sec. H, 1 Memorial Hall Dr. Brown, Sec. O Memorial Hall Dr. Crane, Sec. A Q Memorial Hall Mr. Daly, Sec. R Memorial Hall Mr. Eaton, Sec. N Memorial Hall Professor Frickey, Sec. J, M Memorial Hall Professor Ham, Sec. G Memorial Hall Dr. Hunt, Sec. C Memorial Hall Mr. Leighton, Sec. B Memorial Hall Dr. Phinney, Sec. P Memorial Hall Mr. Ross...
These, however, are defects which one must suppose the poet deliberately risked for the sake of his valid achievements. A part of Hart Crane's ambition, as his essay on "Modern Poetry," (included in this volume) indicates, was to assimilate the urban and mechanical aspects of contemporary life while resuming Whitman's celebration of the American nation. To this task he brought an exceptionally large and varied poetic vocabulary, and it fecundity in metaphor with appears unique in contemporary poetry. Poems like "Lachrymae Christi," "Belle Isle, " and-the lyrical portions of "The Bridge," have surface brightness of texture alien...
Quite possibly the external difficulties of Crane's poetry, like Hopkins' will prevent its ever being widely enjoyed. At any rate, one cannot feel that Waldo Franks' attempt to dispel them in his introductory essay is very fortunates. Mr. Frank, otherwise an excellent editor, displays again his happy knack of giving large expression to little ideas and confuses the problems of Crane's poetry with a serious air of clarification. He does, however, suggest the greatness of Hart Crane's achievement in view of the material he was forced to use, and the authentic idiom which he finally created...