Word: critic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...founding of the Harvard Dramatic Club came to pass under the influence of liquor," was one of the statements made by H. T. Parker '90, one of the club's founders and, since his graduation, dramatic critic of the Boston Transcript...
...Parker '89, Music Critic for the Boston Transcript, will address the Dramatic Club tonight at the first meeting of this organization for this year. Plans for the season will be discussed, especially the choice of the play to be given this winter...
...very thin and isolated company of the world's greatest artists, appears incredible-would be impossible, if it were not that Rodin, all his life, created images in stone as rapidly as if to do so were a natural, an inescapable function of his body. An eminent critic once stated that Balzac, the novelist, was not an individual but one of Nature's forces, like fire or che wind; Rodin was treated with the same sort of primary electricity. He left as many wrought stones as a volcano -a giant's spawn, beyond precise inventory; countless groups...
...open-minded liberal, President Little took an active part in the question of racial exclusion at Harvard three years ago. In a ringing speech to the alumni he denounced the exclusion policy. Since taking charge at Maine he has been a severe critic of educational methods; recently he was quoted as saying that the American colleges were best fitted for turning out "machine-made aristocrats." He is a strong believer in the personal value of education, and has said that he hopes to see the day when the personal interview will succeed the written examination...
That word "contempt" is one that gives a maximum of satisfaction when spat out by old British lips and it usually exaggerates the feeling of the speaker. But there was little exaggeration in this case for the speaker was old Sir Edmund Gosse, poet and critic, onetime (1904-14) Librarian to the House of Lords, who at 76 styles himself "the last of the Pre-Raphaelites...