Word: poetically
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There was a day when editors on other college papers awaited the arrival of Mother Advocate before sampling the verse of the month. Certainly the seven poetic contributions of this number are exemplary, in skill at least, of the old standard. Mr. Cabot's "Transcendency" being diabolically clever, is balanced by a conventional but charming bit from Mr. Sedgwick, and their juxtaposition on the same page shows excellent editorial acumen. Turning back a page we find Mr. Rogers' "where fauns with shadows play," while below him Mr. McLane in Swiftian style lampoons certain dull poetasters. "To still the Memnonian music...
...Henderson's study, on the other hand, though simpler in theme, is much more perfectly and richly done. It is, indeed, a remarkably perceptive piece of work, one which many a well-known professional need not blush to have written. In delicacy of feeling and description it approaches the poetic. There is no waste in it: Mr. Henderson treasures his sentences. The psychology is sure and senitive, and Mr. Henderson resolves his theme in precisely the necessary subdued tone of climax...
Hubert Osborn, Sp.,'s "The Readjustment" is the most mature and subtle of the plays. "Free Speech," by W. L. Prosser '18, is a farce on the present Russian situation; "Dayspring," by J. F. Froome, Sp., is a poetic sketch about a man who has committed a murder, but who is finally saved by the testimony of a doctor...
...first one will be a series of eight lectures by Professor Lowes on "Convention, Originality and Revolt in Poetry." (1) The Roots of Convention. (2) The Ways of Convention. (3) Originality and the Moulding of Conventions. (4) The Hardening of Conventions, and Revolt. (5) The Diction of Poetry vs. Poetic Diction. (6) Rhyme, Metre and "Vers Libre." (7) The Incursions of Prose and the Vogue of the Fragmentary. (8) The Anglo-Saxon Tradition. These lectures will be given on Mondays and Thursdays at 5 o'clock, beginning Monday, January...
...service, unmixed with the love of adventure, and in young men the latter impulse may become stronger than the first. Many misled by the bugles and banners of war, thought to undertake it lightly as they had undertaken other pursuits lightly. We must acknowledge that war, in its most poetic and gaudy guise, is far too terrible a work to be undertaken lightly. For such men a continuation of their college course would be the best course, both as regards themselves and their nation...