Word: bynner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winners of Saturday's competition are: William T. Dean, Jr. '37, who will give Nicholas Murray Butler's "The Isolated Life"; Robert Dunn '37, giving "A Song of Unending Sorrow," translated from the Chinese by Witter Bynner; Paul Killiam, Jr. '37, who will give an excerpt from Maurice Baring's "Essay on Poetry and Moods of the Public"; Henry V. Poor '36, who will give "The Hound of Heaven," by Francis Thompson; Shepherd Robinson '36, who will give excerpts from James Bryant Conant's 1934 Baccalaureate Sermon; Robert A. Robinson '35, who will give excerpts from Charles Evans Hughes' "Tribute...
...Witter Bynner's poetic phizog labeled as Alfred Neumann (TIME...
...horrendous clerical blunder (in picture-filing), apologies to Author Neumann, Poet Bynner, TIME'S readers...
Died. Professor George Pierce Baker, 68, famed teacher of playwrights; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1902, teaching English 47 at Harvard, he let a group of pupils headed by Witter Bynner submit original plays instead of term-end theses. In 1912 Professor Baker's "47 Workshop" was formally organized with cramped working quarters and a small theatre. Professor Baker in 1925 accepted Yale's offer to run its luxurious new $125,000 theatre and drama school. He retired in 1933. Some Baker students: Eugene O'Neill, Philip Barry, Sidney Howard, Winthrop Ames, Robert Edmond Jones, Robert Benchley...
Meanwhile other changes in deCoppet & Doremus were announced, left the cultural balance about even. Retiring to write a book was Frank E. Lapham Jr., a general partner since 1927, who started as a clerk many years before. Admitted to general partnership was Warren Bynner Nash, treasurer of the Stock Exchange, collector of rare etchings...