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An overflow crowd packed Kirkland Junior Common Room and gathered around loudspeakers in the courtyard and dining hall last night to hear Robert Frost give a reading of his poems.
For an hour and a half the 73 year old poet entertained the audience with dozens of his poems and spontaneous remarks ranging from the relation of science to poetry to the Kinsey Report.
Among poems read were "Ice and Fire," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Departmental," and, by request, "Mending Wall."
Given a honorary Doctor of Literature degree in 1937, Frost at one time gave the Charles Eliot Norton poetry lectures and is now a Ralph Waldo Emerson Follow.
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