Word: devoto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appointed by President Conant to promote the study of American history not only among the students of the University but also among the public, the American History Committee last year presented public lectures by Felix Frankfurter, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and Bernard DeVoto, author and critic...
Dates of the series are as follows: Tuesday, November 1, "Aftermath of the Civil War"; Thursday, November 3, "Burying the Hatchet," and Tuesday, November 8, "Recent Times." Other notable men who have spoken for this series are Felix Frankfurter, Byrac Professor of Administrative Law, and Bernard DeVoto...
...speak with awed respect of one DeVoto...
...conception of decency anywhere), complain that in its non-fiction no intellectual rivers are ever set afire, in its fiction no Buddenbrooks appear among the Clarence Buddington Kellands. This is old stuff to Editor Stout's staff. Nowadays they respond simply by handing out a reprint of Bernard DeVoto's sensible piece on Writing for Money, printed in the Saturday Review last year...
...Historical fiction is better right now than it ever has been before," Bernard DeVoto '20, editor of the Saturday Review of Literature stated last night in his concluding address at the New Lecture Hall...