Word: byrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name of the authors run a large gamut, one near to the game declared. In one lecture Byron, Wordsworth. Wackenroder, Hazlitt, Novalis, Chateaubriand, Herder, Rousseau, Goe-the and Voltaire clashed with St. Augustine, Confucius, Aristotle, St. Paul, Socrates, Dante, Plato and Marcus Aurelius, Sandwiched in between were Walter Lippman, Barry Elmer Barnes, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Picasso and John Livingston Lowes...
...finalists will be chosen. Last year F. F. Wilder '32 won the Lee Wade Prize for Elocution with his rendering of Calvin Coolidge's speech before the Massachusetts Senate in January, 1914. At the same time D. D. Lloyd '31 was awarded the Boylston prize for his recitation of "Byron" by Vachel Lindsay. W. H. Melish '31, who rendered "A Peace Worth Preserving" by Wilson, and J. L. Ware '30, who recitated "The Passing of Arthur" by Tennyson won the two other prizes. The 1929 competition was won with declamations of selections from older authors, such as "Orpheus and Eurydice...
...milk. They talked to each other with some sort of grunts-umfa umfa-glug glug." Thus did a Perth Amboy, N. J. public school teacher read last week to her sixth grade pupils. One little girl was immeasurably shocked & revolted, went home and told her father. He, Rev. Byron Christopher Nelson, vigorous young Lutheran minister, bounced off to a Kiwanis Club luncheon, read passages from the book, A Child's History of the World. Said he: ". . . There is plenty of other stuff to teach." (He is author of After Its Kind, considered authoritative by antievolutionists...
...Livingston Lowes, for the collection into one or two volumes of articles on Chaucer, for the preparation of a book on Chaucer, for the completion of Gutch Memorandum Book of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and for the continued investigation of manuscript in Harvard College Library at first thought to be Byron's; Mr. D. M. Little, Jr., for obtaining photostats of original letters and manuscripts by or relating to David Garrick...
...first Pascin exhibition contained some of his worst pictures, the second most of his best, between the two shows the artist himself suddenly and horribly committed suicide. To the general public he is already becoming a Character, classed with Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Modigliani, Van Gogh, and Lord Byron, among the rips, rakes, and naughty fellows of the arts...