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Speaking before the American Academy of Arts and Letters at its annual meeting in New York Thursday evening, Irving Babbitt '89, professor of French Literature, delivered an address on "The Problem of Style in a Democracy." The meeting was largely given ever to the celebration of the 80th birthday of Dr. Henry van Dyke, noted author and clergyman...
Score--Lowell 7, Ramblers 0. Touchdown--Salls (fourth period) Point after touchdown--Ferriter. WINTHROP ADAMS Morse, l.e. r.e., Gilliban Carman, l.t. r.t., Powel Dunton, l.g. r.g., Larcom McCabe, c. c., Schwab Gorman, r.g. l.g., Kupshaw Knowles, r.t. l.t., Hutter Babbitt, r.e. l.e., Violi Wightman, q.b., q.b., Piper Dutton, l.h.b. r.h.b., Hall Smith, r.h.b. l.h.b., Bradley Bottomley, f.b. f.b., Beaudreau...
...admirer of the U. S., Author Priestley contrives to have his hero bored by a Cincinnati Babbitt who remarks of his library of tourist literature: "I guess I've got the most complete one in the States." More profound and more profitable than Author Priestley's knowledge of U. S. idiom is his knowledge of how to give unreal characters an air of reality by letting them sit down in out-of-the-way places to chat about everyday matters like sex, communism, the cinema, debauchery, patriotism, honesty. The ramblings of Author Priestley's invention are limitless. They make Faraway...
...Irving Babbitt, Humanist, Harvard professor L.H.D...
Sinclair Lewis, in Paris, discussed his new book. The heroine, Anne Vickers, "will be a sort of female Babbitt playing a reverse role, but she is not intended as a sarcastic interpretation of that glorious class of American women who help make the wheels of business spin. She will live on Main Street and Dr. Arrowsmith will be her family doctor...