Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1884 — Elmer Dwiggins' Class Poem. [ARTICLE]

Elmer Dwiggins' Class Poem.

aqmii3S;W> ——— Ttotroll Foil audTri'bii.P. , After the oratkfti theVe was more music and theft came the poem, •Princess Ida’s Model University,” by Elmer Dwiggins. It is writteh in bright, descriptive style of blank verse, and is really an interesting production. The writer’s object is to show that the idea di the model school Which TennySoti sketched in his “£riricess” Vas not impaired by the victory of love and lives to-day in Michigan's University. The poem thbs pictured the campus as it appears When clad in its summer garb; r . “Wepas. ttic Wti ever open Rate, And peering 'aijtvn through aisles grbeh cblwmaed high, "Witte oak ahdash in primert t reel food all; We seel Slkht to «e all novel new: At every avenue’s end a building sLinlls, fall, towring above the hjditing trees. Here is a tower with ttpVal of bells; And here a four-faced clock pe&ls tinic to all. The broad, stone steps lead tip to lecture halls, And here the tall, brick chi&neys. breathing smoke. Amrotlneed a laboratory full of buzz, ilctwteu the avenues on the grassy swards, Are plays and sports and games, in contrast close. To sundry other scenes of busy Work, here stretch tlie hets and catch the tennis balls That pretty; laughing girls strive hard to place. ******* No dormitories, as we pass along, Cry out to us with customary noise. Norank and file to chapel or to prayers, but each as pleases best conducts himself;”