Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made of virgin vicuna wool. The two Presidents exchanged a genuine bear hug. Everyone else was shaken by the hand and touched to the heart. The last that Buenos Aires saw of Franklin Roosevelt he was standing on the bridge as the Indianapolis pulled out into sluggish, shoreless Rio de la Plata, waving a blue and white scarf, the national colors of Argentina...
...little in the past has the importance of American literature been heeded by the faculty of Harvard. With the sudden departure of Bernard De Voto the last vestige of a modern American literature course disappeared. For the current year English 70 has been discontinued, and when it is resumed in February of 1938, there is no telling what changes the mysterious withdrawal of Harvard's Whistler will have wrought. His flight from Harvard caused regret among many students and gave rise to renewed criticism of the administration. It would seem that nothing can be done now to right the wrong...
...stress our literature is to add more courses to the college curriculum, but since no authority like Mr. De Voto flourishes in the English Department, and perhaps not one in the country whom Harvard could adopt into its colorless brood, this suggests the improbable. A similar alternative, not to be regarded as final, is to improve as much as possible the existing courses. Toward the accomplishment of this the heads of English 7 are making a definite move...
...play is an annual affair; last year "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac," by Moliere, was given before an audience of 400 in Lowell House...
Sumner Willard '37 will direct the production of "Aisle de Nuit," while "Le Commissaire Est Bon Enfant" is directed by Mile. Germaine Arosa, who has directed successfully several plays in Paris and Boston...