ARTS ANTHOLOGY INTRODUCTION WRITTEN BY ROBERT FROST
The first anthology of Dartmouth poetry appeared under the auspices of The Arts this spring and contains for the most part verse inspired by The Arts poetry contest of the past winter. It is entitled "Dartmouth Verse, 1925" and includes among its contributors: A. W. Edson '25, A. C. C. Hill, Jr. '25, A. K. Laing '25, H. S. Talbot '25, P. B. Tanner '25, R. G. Eberhart '26, S. Lenke '26, R. A. Lattimore '26, C. D. Webster '26, B. Imbs '27, M. W. Schacht '27, and W. A. Breyfogle '28.
Robert Frost in his introduction says, "We are here getting a long way with poetry, considering all there is against it in school and college. The poet, as every one knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of 15 and 25. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else until the danger of his ever creating anything is past. Their motto has been, the muses find some mischief for idle hands to do. No one is asking to see poetry regularized in courses and directed by coaches like sociology and football. It must remain a theft to retain its savor. But it does seem as if it could be a little more connived than this."
