Word: carles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the election of the officers Saltonstall appointed Carl Howard Pforzheimer '28 of Purchase, N. Y., chairman of the Budget Committee. The chairman will select the rest of his committee some time this spring...
...Mary Jobe Akeley returned to Manhattan from Africa completing the work of the gorilla-collecting museum expedition on which her husband, Naturalist Carl Ethan Akeley, died last autumn. She described the manner of his death after fever, convalescence, overwork and an intestinal hemorrhage in camp 9,500 feet up on Mount Mikeno, Belgian Congo; described his grave, beneath moss-hung trees and among blooming wild orchids on "his old trail in the beautiful forest of gnomes and fairies...
...last fortnight to pay a U. S. poet the almost archaic compliment of hearing his newest work and appraising it. They were Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kermit Roosevelt, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, Dr. & Mrs. William Lyon Phelps, Dr. & Mrs. Henry Seidel Canby and many another including Critic Carl Van Doren whose position with the Literary Guild of America made him a sort of esthetic promoter of the evening, and Mrs. August Belmont (stage name: Eleanor Robson), who read aloud for all. The poet was Edwin Arlington Robinson, of a darkling and somewhat chilly New England, singing...
...last night the five additional men for the Council were appointed. Three of these five have been chosen from the present Junior class and two have been picked from the class of 1929. The appointees to the 1927-28 Council are: Henry Wilkinson Bragdon '28, of Rochester, N. Y., Carl Howard Pforzheimer Jr. '28, of Purchase, N. Y., Charles Augustus Pratt '28, of New Bedford, Henry Frederick Schwarz '29, of Greenwich, Conn, and William Sterling Youngman Jr. '29, of Brookline...
Unlike the Oxford book, however, Mr. Gay has not restricted himself to the poets of England alone. One finds Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Eleanor Wylie, Vachel Lindsay, and others, listed with an admirable breadth of taste. On the other hand, the old favorites do not suffer from this inclusive grouping. In some six hundred pages the anthologist has managed to gather together the finest of the old and still he has found space for examples of the new. When it is realized that he has also given many excerpts from longer works--such as from Shakespeare's plays and from...