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...victory may have surprised friends who knew that the 1928-29 season had been his first as a daily critic (with the public duty to pronounce on a play's likelihood of "success''). Hitherto he has concerned himself with "dramaturgy" rather than "show business," as would befit the son of Author Philip Littell (onetime editor of the New Republic) and the product of well-mannered Groton School (Groton, Mass.), where boys who read Shelley and play Mozart are often encouraged. Now 33, Robert Littell's youth included Harvard and the U. S. army of occupation...
...talking about. Miss Cassatt could draw. At that time she had not come under Degas' influence but had caught her inspiration from the floating, luminous figures of Correggio. "Maternity," "The Bath," "Mother's Cares," "Breakfast in Bed," "Children Playing with a Cat," are titles that more befit memorial calendars than good paintings. Critics have hinted that Miss Cassatt might have painted better if she had been married; maternity would then have had less fascination for her. This is a shallow suggestion; if she had borne children she might not have made paintings. She projected her instinct...
...rents of Rome-where Cardinals now find difficulty in maintain- ing lodgings which befit their station...
...made in our issue of yesterday of a new university with a princely endowment to be founded in Massachusetts. We certainly would not say a word to discourage the use of wealth for the spreading abroad of education in any part of the world whatsoever. Such affection would ill befit us above all others, since we enjoy the highest of such advantages for learning. But we think more discretion might be observed in the manner of employing such an amount of money. If this million and a half had been given to some of the struggling universities in the West...
...will begin with the opening of the season." The Courant is at present exchanging compliments with the Record, as witness the following: "When we turn to the exchanges our surprise all vanishes as we see the students of Cornell characterized as 'muckers and slums,' and language used which would befit only a loafer or a tramp...