Show 1 A Critique on a Recent Poem Ii 1 Chris A 06 j tr The e Sophomore S phom re engineers engineer are responsible for the finest bit of poetry ge ry th that t has been produced in the present decade Here It it is y Sophomores the foremost class n Of all 1 J Requests your presence at tl theirs J f Ball g i o f Come Co rue one on come all to Varsity i 1 ti I Hall 9 February seventeenth nineteen hundred five five that's that's all t They They have had the poem published in a neat little cover cOover and have nave distributed copies of it among all their friends and all their friends' friends friends It stands as a living monument to the genius of its producers and at the same time serves to bring notoriety to the engineering s school the other departments can lay claim to none of the honors Fearing our readers may not see the beauties of the little poem II we take the liberty to point them out In the first place we call at attention attention at- at to the metrical arrangement The mercurial barometer style though exceedingly rare in modern poetry is well adapted to express F the vacuity of thought contained in in this poem no one but an engineer engineer engineer engi engi- neer could have planned it However it seems to us that an improvement improve improve- ment might have been made in the thing by expanding the last line which is a trifle cumbersome and irregular into another complete stanza This would also have fitted in with the original idea of using many words Under most circumstances it would be considered a grievous error error error er er- in grammar to say Sophomores requests but this construction is justified by the principle of Archimedes' Archimedes screw x At first reading the expression the foremost class of all may seem a little vague but when we remember that the writers of the had in mind their to write the line poem ability poetry becomes per per- per clear Lack of space prevents our making further comment but we wc trust t the reading public will the attempt of f the Sophomores tes to immortalize themselves in verse We commend the poem for ext extended ex- ex 1 t tended study r. r k t tr a 1 v i |