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Well, Glory be to ---, tonight I attended the DeVoto lecture in New Lecture Hall. Glory be to---, but the New Lecture Hall has deteriorated since my day . . . a day when Harvard was Harvard and not a -- sewing circle...
...third and final lecture of his series on contemporary historical fiction, Bernard DeVoto '20 will give a free public talk at the New Lecture Hall tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock...
...around me were steatopygous females busy with their knitting. A paunchy (is that the word?) old girl in the next seat was sewing, and punctuated Mr. DeVoto's remarks with horrible rippings. Every two minutes she ripped a piece of cloth, so help...
Distinction between the imaginative recreation of history "as it must have happened" and the old romanticized treatment of great men and brave deeds formed the basis of the second in a series of talks on the "American Historical Novel" given in New Lecture Hall last night by Bernard DeVoto...
Illustrative of the new trend, DeVoto named the writings of James Boyd, which he described as "first-rate fiction that happens to be written about a different...