Word: paeans
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...Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard University: "After their football victory at Princeton, some of my students sang a new paean...
...amid the paean of congratulations a discordant note has been sounded a note which, though perhaps uncalled for, deserves consideration nevertheless. The criticism that has arisen concerns, not the singing--that is beyond criticism--but the type of the songs. It would seem that there has been a misunderstanding in several quarters, due to the name of the organization. Glee Clubs, it is argued, should confine themselves to a collegiate, or rather so-called collegiate type of entertainment, rather than deviate into more classical channels. People who, unfamiliar with the repertoire of the Harvard Glee Club, look forward...
...Siegerkranz, Herrscher des Volkes ganz." It would be somewhat of a pity if at some patriotic gathering Americans doffed their hats to the pilgrim fathers, while our cousins of England began, prayers for the salvation of their king, and some well meaning although recent, patriot, burst forth with a paean to "Heil, Kaiser...
Gilbert V. Seldes's essay on "The Old Ideal" may fairly be taken as the manifesto of the reaction. Itself a paean in honor of tradition and the aristocratic ideal, it misses through a touch of petulance something of the repose it praises and something of fairness in attributing all the modern characteristics it censures to a socialism that has not yet come to pass. It would be a graceful acknowledgment of the soundness of the idea that the recent policy of the paper erred by over-emphasizing, if in the next number the editors found room for an essay...
Brackett prepared at Exeter where he was editor of the "Literary Monthly" and the "Paean" and was class poet. He entered Harvard with the class of '98 but left in his Sophomore year to go to work. Three years later he re-entered College with the class of 1901. He had devoted much of his time here to newspaper work...