Word: basil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Basil King, the noted novelist, will speak one week from today before the Graduate School Club on "Psychical Research and Common Sense". It was previously planned to have this talk today, but it has been found necessary to postpone the meeting until March...
...Basil Thompson, K.C.B., formerly head of Scotland Yard, who lectured yesterday at Symphony liall, points out a notable difference in the British and American attitudes toward the law. In England, the "bobby" carries no gun; he needs none, for he is "always right". The crowd will support him in a pinch. It is ingrained in the English that the law, which the "bobby" represents, is right, and must be respected. Here, the "cop" undoubtedly represents the law, but the sympathy is too likely to be with the culprit. Evading the law is often more popular than obeying it. And there...
That the novel is a stimulus to the imaginative faculties when the supply of energy falls short, was stressed by Mr. Basil King in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. King believes that the novel is coming once more into public life after the long lapse of public interest since the beginning of this century...
...Basil King, famous novelist, visited various suites in College dormitories yesterday to gain an "atmosphere" for part of a new novel he is writing called "The Happy Isles". The hero of Mr. King's book, during the latter part of the story, is a student at Harvard, and it is for this phase of the plot that the author is obtaining his setting. The novel will appear in several installments, the first to be in the March number of Harper's Magazine...
...opening meetings in Phillips Brooks House at 7.30, the only one occurring this month, February 13, will be addressed by Professor W. M. Davis '69 on "The Mental Processes Employed in Scientific Research". Of the others, Basil King is scheduled for March 22, Professor H. E. Fosdick for April 10, and Professor W. L. Phelps '91 for April...