Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most competent aspect of the production. The clear definition of each of the three important characters avoids the ambiguity which prevails in the Greek camp, and in the attitude toward war. Jan Farrand is gorgeous, graceful, and convincing as a Cressida who wants to be faithful but simply cannot say no. Bryant Haliday plays a tragic Troilus with maturity and restraint. His statement of utter despair when his world collapses about him is impassioned, but unexaggerated...
...postulant for Holy Orders, as a graduate of Harvard, as a veteran of the 1st Division, as an admirer of Lincoln, I cannot believe that a state, useless tablet or plaque will serve to memorialize the sacrifices of my class mates and friends. Let us by all means have, as Mr. Warren suggests, something which "seek to radiate the thought of heroic sacrifice" Let it be a thing of beauty and nobility. But it must point beyond itself and even beyond the men to whom it is dedicated to fulfill these functions...
...could only be justified if the more advanced courses introduced the critical approach that it lacks. Such courses are few indeed. "Criticism of Poetry," given last year, testifies to this, for it aimed to give the student criteria which he could apply to reading in other courses. But criticism cannot be boxed up in one course and ignored in many others...
...individual instructor has to adopt the historical-critical method of teaching literature him self; the Department cannot prescribe how a professor shall teach. Many of the younger men are following the spirit of the General education recommendation. The older teachers, whose interest lies in either criticism or history, should revise their methods to give the student a fuller picture of literature...
When the new library opens next term, its stacks will contain some 8,000 books. Among this collection will be about 8,000 volumes which are out of print and cannot be bought new. The librarians are still scorching for these important items...