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...collection of the papers of one of America's greatest poetesses--Emily Dickinson--has been opened to literary scholars by the University. They are currently housed at the Houghton Library. Coinciding with the opening of the collection, Thomas H. Johnson, head of the English department at the Lawrenceville School, has published a three-volume edition of her poems through The Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press...
Freshman heavies: Captain Honry Jordan, stroke; Stewart Hussey, seven; Geoffrey Locke, sex; Howard Dickinson, five; Charles Atkinson, four; John Eager, three; John Ellefson, two; Nick Tilney, bow; Reed Bement, coxswain
...snippiest or T. S. Eliot at his youngest. In one respect, however, Lardner was clearly right. When Porter tries to be sentimental about love (which is perhaps half the time), his music may be convincing but his words sound as invincibly phony as Porfirio Rubirosa reading Emily Dickinson to a debutante...
...third new opera last week, when the Mannes College of Music presented Eastward in Eden, by Jan Meyerowitz (TIME, Jan. 30, 1950), based on the 1947 play by Dorothy Gardner. The German-born composer chose an American subject, the tragic, frustrated life of New England Poetess Emily Dickinson, but gave the frail story a pretentious treatment that would have been better suited to Aida or a Greek tragedy...
...central Massachusetts college was founded in September of 1821, 45 miles west of Worcester as a seminary called the "Collegiate Charitable Institution." It has as its nominal founder men like Noah Webster and Samuel P. Dickinson, the grandfather of the poet Emily, but was largely made possible through the contributions and physical labor of more than thirteen hundred citizens of the neighboring countryside. Although it still instructs in "all branches of literature and science," it long ago adopted the surname of the renowned Indian hunter and has long since extended its influence beyond the sons of the Connecticut Valley farmers...