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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...
Speaking informally before the members of the English 28 Club and their guests last night in Smith Halls Common Room, Mr. Basil King, the noted novelist, gave his answer to "Why Writers Write and Readers Read": "When I began to write, I thought that writers were superfluous and readers merely read to pass the time. I have since found out differently. Readers read to keep alive the lamp of their imagination, and writers write to feed that lamp...
...Basil King, the noted novelist, will speak on "Why Writers Write and Readers Read" at a meeting of the English 28 Club in the Smith Halls Common Room at 7.30 o'clock tonight. Mr. King, whose first book, "Griselds", was published in 1900, has since that time written many widely read novels such as, "Wild Olive", "The Street Called Straight", and "The Way Home...