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...poem "The Yards at Dawn," by Mr. Nelson, presents a characteristic sketch of Cambridge, the Cambridge we curse near by and yearn for from a distance: the Cambridge swathed in river mists...
...which one acquired certain rather definite scientific and professional attitudes, and learned new interpretations which threw experience and information into new terms and new lights. The average undergraduate tends to meet studies like philosophy, psychology, economics, general history, with a frankly puzzled wonder. A whole new world seems to dawn upon him, in its setting and vocabulary alien to anything in his previous life. Every teacher knows this baffling resistance of the undergraduate mind...
...Paulding's specialty is the sketch. In the "Man on Stilts" he draws a good little portrait. He cannot be too much encouraged in perfecting this form of composition which is so unpopular but so artistic. Mr. Hillyer's "The Dawn of the Sunset" is an allegorical sketch of doubtful significance, but well phrased in its extreme brevity...
...certain of Mr. Rogers' ideas in the long poem "Death"--a large subject--pent in a rather exacting rhyme scheme. If the author had been less vague and more self-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...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra," by M. A. DeWolfe Howe '87; "Clark's Field," by Robert Merrick '90; "The Judicial Veto," by Horace A Davis '91; "Boys of Eastmarsh," by Fisher Ames, Jr., '92; "The College Course and Preparation for Life," by Albert Parker Fitch '00; Faces in the Dawn," by Hermann Hagedorn...