Word: berdan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JOHN BERDAN, Professor of English at Yale: "It was such a short time ago when he was writing his Yale News editorials and was soon to be discussing anxiously the new magazine TIME. Whatever he did, he carried through to its triumphant conclusion, sacrificing himself to his work . . . But what we shall miss is not his work, but himself; not what he did, but what...
...Post had cast about to find a man who could adequately conduct the Literary Review. They went to the group of literary professors at Yale—the group which included the fluent William Lyon Phelps, the dramatic Chauncey Brewster Tinker (author of Young Boswell) the Chestertonian John M. Berdan, the quiet, sage Charlton M. Lewis, now dead, Dean Wilbur Cross, Editor of the Yale Review, and others less well known. From this group the Post secured Dr. Henry Seidel Canby...
...font of good plays and evil, the revived "Beggar's Opera" came for a "one-night stand" after winning London for three years, and the whole of this country during an extensive tour. But New Haven, accustomed to passing independent judgment, was inclined to be inhospitable. Professor John Million Berdan, of Yale and Early Tudor fame, took the double role of Burke and Boswell, calling the Play banal and immoral. A good citizeness of the town, alarmed by these aspersions, appealed to the police; and a censoring sortie ensued which stirred the Yale News to earnest defense, playing Johnson...
Divinity,--W. P. Berdan...
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