Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English 50b is the perusal of huge stretches in the works of John Dryden. Were it not for the fact that Congreve and to turn to the opposite pole, Bunyan are also included in the reading list the course would be just what one would expect from the author of "The Hind and the Panther." Few undergraduates have reached that precious stage where Dryden delights rather than bores...
...contributions for the Holen Choate Bell Prize of $.300 must be handed in at University Hall by April 1, it was announced by the department of English. The prize, offered to both Harvard and Radcliffe students, is awarded to the author of the best essay of 5,000 to 10,000 words on any subject on American literature, approved by the Chairman of the Department of English...
...actress whom he had loved and made famous. Now why had a bridge upon whose miraculous high path everyone in Peru had stepped at one time or another postponed its decay to include these particular people in its destruction? Was it an accident or an intention? Author Wilder explores the lives of the five; each one had achieved in life, just before the falling of the Bridge of San Luis Rey, a kind of completion. So at the end, "There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival...
...Unfortunately it falls mostly into the second. Jeremy, who engrossed Mr. Walpole's attention quite frequently when he was small and individual, is now of schoolboy age and character. In his football playing, fighting, friendships, difficulties, he is no longer so engrossing, no longer individual. Here and there Author Walpole makes an opportunity to show his accustomed insight; always he manages with complete mastery a theme that many an inferior novelist has fumbled. But though his book is better than the run of schoolboy novels, it never quite loses the taint of sugary superficiality that has lingered...
GENIUS AND CHARACTER-Emil Ludwig-Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). "And what else must we do but trace this man's every thought and act, every motive and impulse, back to the indivisible elements of his personality?" This is a fine and an austere credo for a biographer. Author Ludwig who followed it so completely and so admirably in his Napoleon, now applies it to a condensed explanation of men whose genius has been exposed in their actions. Da Vinci writing down the wild & enormous range of Nature's behavior; Stanley voyaging into Africa to find Livingston; Cecil Rhodes thinking...