Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downstream along the Cambridge side of the river to a point parallel with the M.I.T. gymnasium. Coach Charles Whiteside has not definitely concluded to abandon the old course entirely but at least the men one will be of real value in conditioning the Varsity for the four mile Yale classic at New London on June...
...said about the drama in which I have acted, I am very glad I selected them for in every one of them I have benefited greatly in the development of my work by the experience gained." In analysis, her playing these parts is not inconsistent with her classic role in last week's Lucrece; they were intense characterizations, rich ripe melodramatics to test the mettle of a serious tragedienne...
...Farewell to Arms (Paramount) will disappoint only those pessimists who, hearing about the difficulties that cropped up during the adaptation of Author Hemingway's sad novel and remembering that it made a wretched play, expected it to be a classic botch. But the picture emerges as a compelling and beautifully imagined piece of work, brilliantly directed by Frank Borzage, acted to perfection by Gary Cooper - whose numb mannerisms are pre cisely appropriate to his role - and by Helen Hayes, whose performance is certainly as good as her work in The Sin of Madelon Claudet which the cinema Academy last...
...joys of classic lietrature are by no means most evident in a course which consists to a large extent of translation, but the instructors who lend their efforts to Latin B make the best of a difficult piece of work. Admittedly, the material which comes to them from Latin A and from preparatory schools is too much bound by fealty to the dictionary to appreciate to the fullest the sweet words of Horace and Catullus. This granted, the course is, from a cultural aspect, one of the most valuable of the many language courses open to Freshmen. The second half...
Frank Merriwell, who, along with Dink Stever, has been for years and years the Classic Yale man of fiction, and whose adventures at Mory's in the Old Brick Row, in Professor Beer's classes and at Harvard football games, in those days played at Springfield, have been familiar to countless readers since the middle '90s, will shortly appear upon the screen and over the radio in strictly modern dress. No longer a part of the New Haven tradition of bulldogs and turtle-necked sweaters, when the original Mortaritya and their golden lucks were a fragrant reality and when fence...