Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fair portion of thoughtful and entertaining writing. The pages to which most readers at Harvard will first turn are those devoted to Mr. Donald Gibbs' "Sawdust Trails in the College"--a kind of "apologia", it may be conjectured, for a recent remark which attained a wider currency than its author intended. Mr. Gibbs' subject is the 'student conference' which too often reaches, in the name of a free discussion of educational problems, no higher result than the training up of the student delegates who attend toward a "future of fair Rotarian godliness"; and he treats it with a lively, slightly...
Ford Madox Ford, the famous English author and friend of Joseph Conrad, will speak in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 7.30 o'clock, taking as his subject, "Thirty Years of Literary Life in Europe...
...Ford is a very prolific writer, being the author of more than 40 books. He has recently completed a trilogy of novels on the war, bearing the titles "Some Do Not", "No More Parades", and "A Man Could Stand...
...flurry saved the day for The Virgin Man, which was close to failure. After the "raid" Author-Manager William F. Dugan was obliged to seek a bigger theatre to accommodate the sympathetic public. Sex and The Captive had been running for eleven and five months, respectively. They now looked good for another season. One manager joked: "We'll fight it out on this line if it takes all Sumner...
French critics have been exclaiming and declaiming about Author La Mazière. His hero, the Parisian equivalent of a Wall Street protozoan, is made to seem more wistful than the meanest Americano would likely be. An orphan, he suffers an ugly seduction in his youth. His one love affair founders on his poverty before it is launched. His friends are a kindly, resigned fatalist, and a mad painter who drags him to hear opera from the top gallery. His sensitive nature is sickened by the War and after the misery of heroism he experiences peacetime betrayal by crass noncombatants...