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when at Harvard, Greene was Latin salutatorian and odist of his class. A year ago, he won the Newdigate Prize at Oxford with a poem, "Richard I before Jerusalem...
...last meeting of the Graduate Schools' Bible class will be held this evening at 7 o'clock. Professor Arnold's subject will be "The Post-Prophetic Religions of Jerusalem...
...Seldes's essay, "The Question of Democracy," is stimulating and in great part true. Mr. Greene's "Richard I. before Jerusalem" does honor to him, to Harvard College, and to America, since it is the first poem by an American to take the Newdigate Prize. If it suggests that the author is not inevitably a poet, but rather a man of literary taste and poetic feeling, it cannot be alone among Newdigate Prize poems in this respect. It is everywhere sound in workmanship, dignified in manner, high in thought...
When the Newdigate Prize at Oxford was awarded to W. C. Greene '11, a Rhodes scholar there, for a poem entitled "Richard the first before Jerusalem," in the early part of last summer, it went to an American for the first time since its establishment in 1806. The prize consists of twenty-one guineas and competition for it is open to all members of the University. In years past it has been won by such men as Matthew Arnold and J. A. Symonds...
...Newdigate prize at Oxford University was recently awarded to William Chase Greene '11, of Baltimore, Md., for a poem entitled "King Richard the First Before Jerusalem." Greene is the Rhodes scholar from Massachusetts; last June he was odist of the Class of 1911 and second marshal of the Phi Beta Kappa Society...