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...Harvard was given all Sheldon's career. Son of a Maine clergyman, he was born in Waterville on November 21, 1851. It was an bale family: one of his brothers won distinction in law, another in medicine; a sister was one of the most effective teachers in Boston. After graduating from our College in 1872, with Highest Honors in Modern Languages, Sheldon spent years in study abroad, mostly in Berlin and Paris. In 1877 he was made Instructor in Modern Languages. Not until 1884 was he definitely assigned to the Romance side, which he regarded as his own; in that...
Kenneth Macgowan '11, co-director with Robert Edmund Jones '10 and Eugene O'Neil '16 of the Greenwich Village Theatre in New York and Philip Bale, Boston theatrical critic, are the two men who have recently risen to deny that Harvard has allowed "its theatrical interests to go into blue obscurity." Both these men find in the Dramatic Club a worthy successor to the 47 Workshop...
...similar mind is Philip Bale, who under the title of "The Dramatic Renaissance at Harvard," writes in an optimistic vein on the Harvard dramatic situation. Referring to the Dos Passos '16 play, "The Moon Is a Gong", which, according to Hale, marked a new area in Harvard dramatics, the Boston reviewer writes in part...
...dialect perfect, the antics convulsing. Porgy, a purple-black beggar with crippled legs and a pungent goat, croons to his scampering dice, prays with his neighbors in Catfish Row, contemplates the insignificance of man. In a shadowy triangle involving Crown, a cinnamon stevedore with a chest like a cotton-bale, and his big wench Bess, Porgy's soul undergoes the extremes of compassion and ruthless violence, much as the city now basks sleepily in hot sun, now is hammered with a furious hurricane, now basks again...
...regions of the cotton belt harassed by drought, especially in Texas." Indeed, private estimates of the coming crop have experienced similar (though lesser) increases for the same reason. But on the announcement of the last Government estimate, cotton prices on the New York Cotton Exchange broke $8 a bale to the lowest figures this year, and cotton traders are just now inclined to speak of Government estimators and statisticians in terms completely uncomplimentary...