Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hillyer is ranked as one of the eight foremost Harvard poets and is the author of several books of verse in translations which have been recently published. He is at present an instructor in the English department...
...Author. W. Somerset Maugham took a medical degree at Heidelberg, practiced for a while in the slums of London. Now 50, black-eyed, broad-framed, diffident, he is a restless traveler. His most famed novel, Of Human Bondage, a best seller ten years ago, has had a steady sale ever since. Miss Thompson, a short story of his, was made into a play?Rain?with startling results. His dramas, however, are potboilers. His other novels, short-story collections : The Moon and Sixpence, The Trembling of a Leaf, The Hero, Mrs. Craddock, Liza of Lambeth, On a Chinese Screen...
...Dunce Boy. There was much anticipatory comment about this latest play by Lula Vollmer. She was the author of the glowing Sun-Up and the successful, if not so glowing Shame Woman. The locale of her plays is the Southern mountains, her people the mountaineers. Their dialect is liquid, their passions primitive. She came from that country to Man- hattan, got a job selling tickets for the Theatre Guild. Then Sun-Up. Quite contrary to the custom, it must be said that Miss Vollmer broke badly with The Dunce...
...speaker of the evening will be Professor Kirsopp Lake, who will discuss "Religion, Yesterday and Tomorrow." Professor Lake, who lectured this year at two meetings of the Phillips Brooks House lecture course on religion, is the Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History and is the author of many writings on religion, including articles in the Encyclopedia Brittanica...
...description of Holden's use in 1807 has been found in an almost forgotten Boston literary journal, "Today," which was begun and discontinued in 1852. Charles Hale, author of the description, has set forth the chapel's miraculous powers in an account of the Harvard Alumni Festival...