Word: devoto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DEVOTO Literary Secretary The Salvation Army New York City...
...Honorable Leverett Saltonstall '14, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives; Lawrence S. Mayo '10, assistant dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Bernard A. DeVoto '18, instructor in English; William K. Richardson '80; and Stewart Mitchell, managing editor of the New England Quarterly, and member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, will be the guests of honor at the Leverett House dinner to be held next Wednesday at 6.30 o'clock. After dinner, Samuel E. Morison '07, professor of History, will speak in the Junior common room on President John Leverett, for whom the House was named...
...meetings of groups in Kirkland House are scheduled for this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Bernard DeVoto, instructor in English, will speak to the English group and J. H. Williams, professor of Money and banking, will discuss "The Consequences of Going of the Gold Standard" before the Economists...
...There is absolutely no reality in criticism, but it is among the more pleasant and interesting of indoor games--in fact far more interesting than chess. All criticism agrees in fact, but not in sentiment and therefore literary judgment is worthless," said Bernard DeVoto '20, Instructor in the Department of English, in an interview...
...Mark Twain is personally concerned," Mr. DeVoto continued, "I have endeavored to prove that he is a man of literary importance. Although he is today one of the most widely read of American authors, nevertheless, I do not believe he has received the recognition he deserves from the literary critics. However, I have given no proofs to substantiate my argument of Twain's importance, but have based it entirely upon fact. Being fundamentally opposed to all flat literary questions which are absolutely personal, I have also endeavored to suppress the man's personality...