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...only menace fostered by the critic; his efforts often constitute a temptation as well. It is far easier, and much more expedient to read and re-hash the comments which appear in the encyclopedia on the subject of Ben Jonson, for instance, than it is to honor the bard and his works with an original treatise. And to complicate matters still further, the former procedure is invariably productive of a better grade. This unfortunate state of affairs doubtless cannot be corrected by consigning to oblivion all critical essays and essayists, past and present; but before absorbing, sponge-like, the views...
...Bard Pendleton Rogers '33, of New York City, was appointed Freshman track manager, it was announced last night. Hamilton Young '33, of Newton, and Augustus Ernest Evans, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, were appointed assistant track manager and cross country manager, respectively...
...Rose Marie, very much a bit of charming tinkle and fluff (TIME, Nov. 18). Later Their Majesties went to two or three plays without music. It was not until last week, however, that King George turned, as one eventually does, to Shakespeare and to Hamlet. It was the Bard's birthday (April 23), and Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson was opening an all-star Hamlet, the proceeds to go to theatrical charities...
...000th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth rolls round ( 1634 years hence) most Anglo-Saxons may have all but forgotten him, though Germans will surely stage tremendous demonstrations for "Unser Shakespeare."† But Italy does not have to wait to celebrate the 2,000th birthday of her bard. From toe to top of the boot-shaped Peninsula, last week, prefects of provinces and podestas (mayors) proclaimed the beginning of "six months of tribute" to Virgil...
...Rightly do Teutons call the English bard "Our Shakespeare," for they have made him theirs. More performances of his plays are given throughout Germany each winter than in all the rest of the world in a decade...