Sandburg-Wilder-Millay

Carl Sandburg, poet, biographer and ballad singer, lectured on modern poetry and sang old folk-songs before a Dartmouth audience that filled Dartmouth Hall to capacity, overflowing into the aisles and the very platform from which the visitor spoke. Following him appeared the more suave Thornton Wilder speaking on the relations between literature and life. Mr. Wilder speaks in the same manner in which he writes and the listener finds himself wandering into scenes from The Bridge of San LuisRey or The Woman of Andros. Edna St. Vincent Millay appeared as the third of this trio from America's finest writers. Miss Millay read extensively from her own poetry proving herself capable of acting as well as writing. All three of these writers were welcomed by the student body with an unusual amount of interest and approbation.