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Stressing the growth of public squares in the towns of the eighteenth century, Dr. Siegfried Giedion, Historian of Art and Architect, Zurich, spoke last night at Fogg Museum. His talk was the third of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures on the subject of "Architectural Inheritance...
...seems natural that Harvard teams and students should journey to New Haven today and tomorrow, for Harvard has had a parental interest in Yale for a good long while. When at the beginning of the eighteenth century the Apleys and Aldens of New England felt that theologically Harvard was slipping into radical sloughs, they realized a perennial dream for a college in Calvinist Connecticut. The Rev. Pierpont, Class of 1681, obtained a charter, and the Rev. Pierson, Class of 1668, was chosen rector. In 1716 the "Collegiate School of Connecticut" was permanently established in New Haven, and at the suggestion...
...treasured "Book of Knowledge." Lately however, Vag has been finding out much more about this particular man. It seems Vag missed the point of these stories of strange lands. They weren't just fairy tales; they were satire--bitter, clever, biting, calculated ridicule of the life and society of eighteenth century England. Written in beautifully flowing, powerful, yet childishly simple language, they are considered perhaps the best satires in English. It is indeed a cruel sarcasm--and society's revenge on the author--that his best works should now be beloved only of children who read vacantly, failing to comprehend...
...sources of positive embarrassment to the University. There have been lecture series, even professorships, which involved questionable and unnecessary attacks upon popular institutions, even upon religions. Negatively equivalent to this is the fact that restricted grants have frequently supported eminently useless projects. Arising, perhaps, from vital controversies in the eighteenth century, these later became unique for their insignificance, yet had to be perpetuated. Wealth means little to Harvard when devoted to such ends...
Paramount and Fenway are showing a Technicolor "triumph" called "Valley of the Giants", which is overshadowed by the entertaining second feature, "Time Out for Murder", starring Gloria Stuart and Michael Whalen. The Fine Arts is continuing for the eighteenth week "Moonlight Sonata", which has the disadvantage of being an English film but the more than compensating advantage of Paderewski. Across from the Yard in Harvard Square the University in featuring "The Texans", a mediocre Paramount picture with Joan Bennett and Randolph Scott, and Stuart Erwin in "Passport Husband." Sunday will bring Harold Lloyd's decrepit but still amusing "Professor Beware...