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...intended to be understood by every intelligent reader. He died of dropsy at 56. These characteristic lines (reprinted from the Selected Works of Alexander Pope, a new volume edited by Louis Kronenberger: Modern Library; $1.25) are one of the neatest jobs of literary assassination ever done. The victim: Joseph Addison...
Wordsworth was a romanticist, Addison wrote newspaper articles in 18th Century London, Newman was a Cardinal, and Donne did not always practice what he preached. These are some of the miscellaneous and disconnected facts about English literary history, which are about all most of the men who are taking English 1 will ever remember. This gigantic survey course, which attempts to cover all of English literature from Beowulf to Beerbohm, is required for all English concentrators and has been consistently criticized through the years as being exhausting, boring, and worthless...
SQUASH (minor H)--Langdon F. Clay ocC; Hugh K. Foster '50; Rockwood H. Foster '45 ocC (captain); Milton S. Heath, Jr. '49; Addison L. McGovern '46 ocC; James E. McKittrick '49; Stephen Mead, 2nd '50; George Stevens '46 ocC; William H. Wightman '49; Richard J. Dorsey '49 (manager). Major H in minor colors: Milton S. Heath...
...Handel, but exceptionally lovely, especially in its word-coloration effects. That it did come through to the audience was a tribute to the finesse vocally and in diction of the combined choruses, the solid if unexciting virtues of bass soloist Paul Tibbetts, and the brilliant singing of Soprano Adele Addison...
...Miss Addison was distinctly the star of the evening. She sang her part well technically; but more than that she sang with perfect feeling for the sincere, restrained emotion characteristic of the Handel-Milton combination. Instead of the colorless clarity used for Handel by British sopranos like Isobel Baillie she brought a superb temperate richness to her part...