Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Gilbert Murray, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, and first occupant of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, will lecture tonight at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. His subject will be "The Hercic Age...
...Americans is different. For one thing, it dives into the melting pot business without fetching up an Irish-Jewish wedding. For another, it keeps itself, in this nervous age, as innocent of agitated movement as a stuffed porpoise. The entire second act, shunted in bodily from the vaudeville circuit, consists of a classroom scene, leaves the slight plot snoozing at practically the same complication it had reached when the curtain crept down on Act I. The audience was quick to appreciate that vaudeville interpolation. More than a series of dialect jokes is the picture of Life's graduating seniors...
...enjoyment the good things of the world, his meditative, whimsical alter ego was at work upon the essays here collected. Since Brillat- Savarin was rich, he had no need to print during his lifetime. He wrote at leisure, as a gourmand should, and deigned to publish in his old age a book constantly rewritten, mellowed and refined throughout his lifetime...
...longer the white haired sage whose years and experience have fitted him for the task of judging the merit of literary endeavors, but the child of twelve whose rompers take the ink spots as her brilliant pen splashes on its critical way. Elizabeth Benson of New Jersey at the age of twelve has seen in criticism her life work and has only waited until she has reached the ripe age of twelve before beginning seriously to judge the merits of her elders. However, there are those who still believe a background of a dozen years in this world of life...
...national spirit, in other words, is first largely evident in the Elizabethan Age, and it is this spirit in the literature of that period which will be the subject of a lecture to be given at 12 o'clock this morning in Sever 11 by Professor Lowes in his course English 32 Other lectures of interest to be given this morning...