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...Tell Them to Come." For many years he has lived in Rome, making his home in the convent of the Little Company of Mary, on Celian Hill, not far from the Coliseum. The streetcars clanging past his window disturb him not at all as he sits in his simple room, writing in a hand still firm. A Catholic living in a Catholic retreat, he calls his religion "a matter of sympathy and traditional allegiance, not of philosophy." Says he mischievously: "I believe I am the despair of the nuns here, who hope I'll become pious on my deathbed...
Since World War II cut off his royalties from the U.S., Santayana has lived in a convent run by the Little Company of Mary on Rome's Celian Hill. There he ran through the Sisters' library - first Dante and all of Shakespeare's plays, then the Gospels in the Douai version and the lives of the saints...
...debate, which will be held between teams of two representatives from each institution, has been arranged under the supervision of Celian Ufford '19 and R. W. Coues '95, of the English department. The Harvard speakers who are members of the public speaking divisions of English A, are as follows: J. R. Wink '33, K. W. McMahan '33, J. A. Cooper '33, and S. B. Goodwin...
...arranging of a schedule of debates and when a sufficient number of contests have been arranged a call for more candidates will be made. The latter will make up the teams and later in the season an election of permanent officers for the Freshman Debating Council will be held. Celian Ufford '19, assistant professor of English, will have general supervision of the Freshman debating while P. C. Reardon '32 and R. B. Eckles '32 will concern themselves with the actual coaching of the teams...
Through the cooperation of Celian Ufford '19, Instructor in English, and F. C. Packard, Jr. '20, Assistant Professor of Public Speaking, members of the debating team will lend their services to Phillips Brooks House when the occasion demands. By this arrangement, it is expected that both groups will profit. The speakers will gain valuable experience delivering lectures before strange audiences, while Phillips Brooks House will be aided in is outside work. Although the teams have not yet spoken, their first opportunity will probably come within two weeks...