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North Carolina's Dry Senator Cameron Morrison threw the meeting into wild confusion with another loud speech along the same line. His attacks on Chairman Raskob for injecting Prohibition into the meeting brought boos and hisses from the audience. Angrily he exclaimed: "Oh, your jeering methods, your hisses! But understand you'll never tie the Democratic party down to death and destruction for lack of men who scorn your hisses and defy your unfair methods. . . . If the Democracy would cease this foolishness over liquor we could go forward to a great triumph...
...imaginative flights so often strung into a narrative of sorts would be much better chopped up into separate lyrics. They need to be strongly and vigorously subordinated to the central motif so that they do not stand out as an occasional flashing jewel on a wire but, as Mr. Morrison succeeds so well in doing, they should appear as integral and inseparable parts of the whole poem. It is true that the finest writing cannot be sustained and that a long poem can only hope to contain intermittent flashes of high lyric poetry. Nevertheless the narrative skill of the poet...
There is an almost Miltonian strength to the book though in depth of perception and vigour of treatment it is perhaps best to be compared to the contemporary poet, Robinson Jeffers. Like Jeffers, Morrison comes to terms with the modern environment. He neither apologizes to the Great God Machine for his place as a poet in the world of science nor does he treat the modern telephone and automobile and cigarette as essentially unpoetic. They merely exist as parts of the setting for his human drama...
...score--Harvard Freshmen 4, Andover 0, Goals--First period; Summers, Second period; N. Ware, Summers. Third period; Kirkland. Referce--Morrison. Time--three 15-minute periods...
Score--Harvard Seconds 2, Newton High 1. Goals--First period: McGregor. Second period: McKennan, Mason. Referees--Morrison, Sands. Time--three 15-minute periods...