Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Zona Gale, author and playwright, who is aiding Senator La Follette in his presidential campaign, expressed, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter recently, her reasons for supporting the Wisconsin senator...
Pronouncing Professor George Pierce Baker '87, head of the 47 Workshop, a "prophet who is without honor in his own country" and otherwise scoring the University authorities for their laxness in providing Professor Baker with adequate equipment for carrying on his teaching, Hermann Hagedorn '07, prominent New York playwright and author, yesterday addressed a vigorous letter to the CRIMSON decrying the situation which he described as "incredible" and commending the paper heartily for its editorial of last Friday entitled "George Pierce Baker...
...Famous Author and Poet...
...Hermann Hagedorn, the author of the letter, is a member of The Players Club of New York, has had several plays produced both in New York and in Cambridge by the Dramatic Club, and is the writer of numerous well-known poems. He is the author of "Theodore Roosevelt" and of "Roosevelt in The Bad Lands". He is a trustee of the Roosevelt Memorial Association and is a member of the American Association of Arts and Letters...
...outstanding feature, I agree with the editors, is the Class Poem, 1924, by Oliver La Farge. I wonder whether the author has been reading Edwin Arlington Robinson's poems; certainly he has caught something of that master's pattern and manner, his directness, his vigor, his telling expressiveness. Naturally enough Mr. La Farge has been unable to maintain the exquisite balance of form and substance that makes Robinson's best poems so exactly right, so stark and simple and inevitable; yet when Mr. La Farge falters into prose, his idea gives sufficient impetus to rush the reader along. Without lapsing...