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Chosen to the Committee have been Robert M. Hart of Adams House and Tulsa, Oklahoma, Joseph L. Ray, Jr. of Dunster House and Darien, Connecticut, John E. Sonneland of Eliot House and Bellingham, Washington, John P. Cambell of Kirkland House and Whitesboro, N. Y., Dryden Jones of Leverett House and Cincinnati, Frank S. Whiting of Lowell House and Torrance, California, Henry H. Arthur of Winthrop House and New York City, and Blaise F. Alfano of Dudley Hall and Roslindale, Massachusetts...
...this list of famous names, but who apparently could not reject the cast-offs to those authors who print their best elsewhere. The contributions of William Carlos Williams, Djuna Barnes, and Horace Gregory are less than shamefully insignificant. Marya Zaturenska's "Organ, Harp, and Violin," a palpable parroting of Dryden's "song for St. Cecilia's Day," combines with a host of insignificantly obscure poetry to bewilder the reader and to detract from the worthwhile portions of the issue...
...Brigham, Rivers; Hugh Calkins, Exeter; Bille C. Carlson, Exeter; Walter F. X. Collopy, Loomis; Charles A. Coolidge, Jr., Groton; Robert D. Cross, Exeter; Daniel D. Gage, Exeter; Richard L. Gardner, Noble and Greenough; David W. Hardy, Thayer; Harold C. Hinton, St. Paul's; Gilbert King, Jr., St. George's; Dryden P. Morse, Belmont Hill; Francis Parkman, Jr., Brooks; James W. Perkins, St. George's; Henry A. R. Peyton, Andover; Charles P. Slichter, Browne and Nichols; Stephen B. Smart, Jr., Milton; John R. Thompson, Andover; J. Robertson Ward, Jr., Milton; Bigelow Watts, Jr., St. Paul's; Alan T. Wenzell, Choate...
...never minced words about Milton. He dislikes the Puritan epicist for "his asinine bigotry, his beastly hebraism, the coarseness of his mentality." Says Smith, "Mr. Eliot is far too urbane to express his disapproval in such Miltonic terms," but he too carries on a "deft, inconspicuous sniping," has mentioned Dryden as being "far below Shakespeare, and even below Milton." "Note," cries vigilant Defender Smith, "the tiny drop of poison in the phrase . . . 'even Milton...
...Acis and Galatea" is the third opera given by the Lowell House Musical Society. The first was Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," which was the Boston debut of that opera. Last year the Society presented the American premiere of the Dryden-Purcell dramatic opera, "King Arthur." This is the first year that a dance group from Wellesley has been included in the cast...