Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tonight in the Dudley House Common Room at 7:30 o'clock Eliot House meets the Commuters in the fourth week of the inter-House debating season. The subject is: "Reseolved, That Harvard should place more emphasis on the Classics and less on the Social Sciences...
...Cancer. This was sensational news, since publishing Henry Miller is a task that might well make any publisher blanch. Brought out in Paris four years ago, Tropic of Cancer has a bigger subterranean reputation than any recent book, based partly on the extravagant praise of critics like T. S. Eliot, partly on the difficulty of buying smuggled copies, but mostly because it is a low book, "the lowest book," in the words of Edmund Wilson, "I can ever remember to have read...
...earnest, attentive manner, a stubborn jaw and much practical business sense. He grew up on Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Laughlin says that he never read a book until he was 16. Then, at Choate, he studied under the erudite poet and translator Dudley Fitts, read Pound and Eliot before he read Wordsworth, began to write with such success that he won an Atlantic Monthly prize...
...victories, the Houses made a clean sweep of their games with the Yale colleges on Friday afternoon. Lowell beat Pierson 14-0 in a game featured by the two brilliant runs of Mel Gordon. The Adams House contingent defeated Saybrook 7-0 on a pass from Lewis to Whitman. Eliot House won its first and only game of the season by winning from Jonathan Edwards 6-0 with Donahue making the touchdown. The Dudley Hall Ramblers beat Timothy Dwight 7-5 in their touch-football game...
...Lightbody, of Eliot, finished the 1 9-10 mile course in the fast time of 10:02. Hanlen, of Kirkland, came in second turning in 10:09. Porter, of Leverett, was fourth with 10:10; fifth Dave Wilson, Leverett, 10:34; sixth, Mead, Dunster 10:37; seventh, Smith, Eliot, 10:38; eighth, Wills, Adams, 10:-39; ninth, Fiske, Eliot, 10:48; tenth, Story, Lowell...