Education: College Poets

"The time has come," said Henry Goddard Leach one day last winter, "for somebody to stop guessing and really find out what undergraduates of 1934 think about."

Able, successful editor of Forum & Century, longtime promoter of student exchanges between the U. S. and Scandinavia, onetime English instructor at Harvard, Henry Goddard Leach decided that he himself was well equipped to do the job. Most students of a philosophic turn of mind, he figured, write poetry. Therefore he announced a college poetry contest. The response was overwhelming. For a chance at...

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