Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward Clark Lilley, prominent Broadway book director, is in charge of the direction. He has directed, among others, the musical shows "The Show Is On, "Between The Devil,' and "Virginia." This year's book was written by John MacD. Graham '38, Nathaniel G. Benchley '38, and Benjamin Welles...
...doors opened several hours later, 3,000 rushed in and thousands more stood shivering on the sidewalks, waiting to hear the current musical idols of U. S. Youth-Benny Goodman and his swing band. The audience was jumping and shouting when New York University's Psychology Professor George Benjamin Vetter and the New York World-Telegram's crack Reporter Joseph Mitchell arrived to study the phenomenon. Reporter Mitchell...
...genuine scrap of Shakespeare's handwriting were found, it should interest everybody but Baconians. For years scholars have known only seven authentic specimens of his signature, three of them in his will. Last fortnight in Salt Lake City, Professor Benjamin Roland Lewis displayed a small piece of paper cut or torn from an old document, with a common contemporary spelling of the bard's name-William Shakspere-plainly written across it. For 19 months Professor Lewis pored over his find. Chemical analysis proved to his satisfaction that the ink was Elizabethan. Microscopic study put, the paper...
Class of 1938: Gleason L. Archer, Jr., Norwell; Walter P. Arenwald, New York; Benjamin F. Bart, West Redding, Connecticut: Harold Van B. Cleveland, Cincinnati: David E. Feller, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Alvin J. Gordon, Woston; Elpenor R. Ohle, Stonington. Connecticut; William A. Selz. Dayton, Ohio; Albert E Weiner, Waltham; and Charles Zibbell, Dorchester...
...voicing undergraduate sentiment, their powers for doing harm obviously exceed their capacity for doing good. Aided by the public's tendency to confuse the writings of a dozen men with the unanimous opinion of an undergraduate body, they win a larger following than perhaps they deserve. And if Benjamin Franklin could deplore the power of a grown man when he acquired "a Press, and a huge Pair of BLACKING BALLS," how much more dangerous are the caprices of irresponsible students. A thoughtless attack, a distortion of fact that may seem funny at the time, a vicious opinion purporting to state...