Word: courtiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baldassare Castiglione's only ambition and natural vocation was "being welcome in the world." A born courtier, he had few worries in his early life except his mother, who kept trying to get him married when he was having too good a time as a bachelor. He practiced worldliness "with an almost religious decorum," and discovering the perennial truth that the gentleman is an almost extinct species, wrote a manual of best behavior (The Courtier) which still makes later books of etiquette seem crude...
Most termite colonies are divided into five castes, apparently determined in the egg. Topping the social scale are the king & queen. They have wings and reproduce. Next come two wingless courtier castes, also fertile, which may step into the reproductive breach if king or queen should die. To the termite proletariat belong the pinheaded, speck-brained workers which do all the damage (see cut, left), the soldiers big of head & jaws. More potent than the fighter shown (cut, right) is a type with retort-shaped head from which it squirts a pungent secretion on its enemies, chiefly ants. These...
Last year in the undergraduate contest, Gilbert Kahn '32 won the $500 prize with an essay on "The Poetry of Thomas Hardy," while in the graduate contest David Fleisher 2G took first place with "Bacon's Essays and Castiglione's Courtier'." W. F. Bruce '31 also won a $300 graduate prize with his essay on "Stereoismerism of Oximes...
...High Executioner, found the part of the Duke less suited to his kind of clowning. He came rather lamely "From the Sunny Spanish Shore," returned more impressively in the Second Act "With Ducal Pomp and Ducal Pride," and at length struck the right note of whimsical sedateness as the "Courtier grave and serious...
...Graduate School a Bowdoin prize of $300 was awarded to David Fleisher 2G, of Brooklyn, New York, in the fields of English, Fine Arts, and Music, for an essay entitled "Bacon's 'Essays' and Castiglione's 'Courtier'". G. E. Stead 1G and M. W. Eccles 4G earned honorable mention. In the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Engineering, the award of $300 went to William Fausset Bruce, Ph.D. '31, of West Somerville, for an essay entitled "The Stereoiserism of Oximes." J. D. Squires 1G and E. S. Redford 2G both obtained honorable mention for their work in the fields...