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...statement in Wednesday's CRIMSON that "Harvard men are thrown in contact with Radcliffe women but little, and seek no closer association. However, I have seen one or two fairly good-looking girls at Radcliffe". Ah, the blase air with which Mr. Dennis utters his profound observations! Lord Byron could hardly have written it more grandly. We understand, of course, that he has investigated the matter thoroughly, and yet--er--we wonder if he has ever tried to get a Radcliffe dormitory on the telephone in the evening? And has he taken into account the statistical proof that...
...five poets to be considered in answering both I and II are Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats...
...CRIMINAL CODE-Arthur Byron makes eloquent a penal tragedy...
...Absolute at Large). In Prague, his home town, he is known as a student of philosophy, principally American (William James, John Dewey), play manager and producer. Onetime Art Director of the National Art Theatre of Prague, he is now manager of the Vinohradsky Art Theatre, where he produces Shakespeare, Byron, Moliére, Ibsen, Strindberg, Goethe, Hauptmann, and contemporary Czech plays. As a short-story writer, like Katherine Mansfield, like Anton Chekhov, Author Capek is fascinated by the drama of people's internal workings, but knows better than to try to explain them, leaves a large and readable
Author Wiegler presents a portfolio of 21 thumbnail biographies: impressionistic studies of men and women of genius. Some are boudoir, some bedside scenes. Heloise and Abelard, separated for life, long for each other and finally share a grave; Byron, fair, fattish and 40, dies of fever at Missolonghi; Goethe walks through the night to one of his many assignations; Oscar Wilde, under his enforced pseudonym of Sebastian Melmoth, dies a pariah at the Hotel d'Alsace in Paris; George Sand and Alfred de Musset kiss and wrangle; Tolstoy, in his last illness, flees his troublesome wife and dies...