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...state's junior colleges, lifetime opponent of the teachings of Philosopher John Dewey. While a student at the University of Chicago in 1896, where Dewey held sway over the philosophy department, Eby was assigned to teach Dewey-style manual training to a four-year-old lad named Archibald MacLeish. Soon disillusioned ("A good thing Archie didn't catch on; he might have become a carpenter instead of a poet"), Eby declared his independence of the master by taking a course in Christian ethics rather than Dewey's course in pragmatic philosophy. In 1909 he landed at Texas...
...introduced by last year's Award-winner, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, who said that we should not worry too much about the meaning of cummings' poems, that "a poem is apprehended in the ear." He termed cummings "one of the few pure lyric voices of our time." It is true that cummings reads very musically and slowly, relishing every syllable whether it means anything or not. The best impression was made by his poem "Thanksgiving: 1956," in which he denounced the official apathy of our government during the Hungarian crisis. Still, cummings is far from being...
...Married. Archibald Henderson, 80, jolly, early-days interpreter of the Einstein theory, as well as official biographer of the late George Bernard Shaw ("Henderson collected me"), drama critic, historian of the South, friend of Mark Twain and longtime (retired: 1948) mathematics professor at the University of North Carolina; and Lucile Kelling, 62. dean of U.N.C.'s School of Library Science, short-story writer, poet, classicist and fellow Shavian; he for the second.time, she for the first; in Chapel Hill...
...Archibald R. Graustein '05 reported that the Law School Class of 1907 had given $59,127 to the School, exceeding the previous high established by the Class...
Over five years ago a faculty committee on the theatre passed a resolution stating that a Theatre should be built. A committee of Harry T. Levin '33, professor of English, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Jose L. Sert, Dean of the Faculty of Design, and Dean Bundy proposed a theatre, largely for experimental purposes, which would accommodate about 500 spectators...