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Home from collecting in South and Central America for the Museum of the American Indian, A. Hyatt Verrill of Manhattan related of Indians living inland from Oldbank, Panama, that they employ the Elizabethan expressions "Gadzooks," "forsooth," "marry," "yea," "nay," "thee," "ye." Explanation: in 1680, Buccaneer Batholomew Sharp sailed to Panama with 350 lusties in The Most Blessed Trinity. They looted, killed, burned out the Spaniards, founded Oldbank, where today live many a Sharp, many a Coxon, Hawkins, Ringrose (names of Sharp's lieutenants...
Michael Scarlett, later the Earl of Dunbury and title character of the new novel, is set in a story of Elizabethan life in London. The tale is racy and dramatic and tells of Scarlett's adventures with Nashe and Marlowe at a great English university and subsequently amid the feuds and brawls which characterized London life at that period...
...that I can no longer hold my peace. In his desire to be in formative, the writer of the review of Amy Lowell's last book refers to Keats as "Poet John Keats." This is too much. Shall we shortly be informed that William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan dramatist? Even assuming that all literate people do not know who John Keats was, is it not also true that all people likely to be interested in the work of Amy Lowell...
English 72: "According to the catalog of courses, English 72 deals with the Romantic Movement in English Poetry, the most fascinating period in English Literature except for the Elizabethan outburst. But the catalog states merely that the course is conducted by Professor Lowes. If Harvard has a single great teacher today, that teacher is Professor Lowes. The average Harvard professor has plenty of erudition, knows it, and is glad to show it; but there is also the professor who has plenty of erudition, knows it, and is eager to acquire more. Professor Lowes, being a great teacher, combines the qualities...
...Lawrence," said Dean Lowes in a statement to the CRIMSON, "is perhaps the most distinguished living authority upon the history of the English stage from the Elizabethan period through the Restoration. He has written on "The Life of Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, Tragedian," and on other theatrical figures, his chief volume being 'The Elizabethan Playhouse and Other Studies,' published in 1912 and 1913. Since then important papers of his have appeared in the Modern Language Review, Studies in Philology, the Fortnightly Review, and in a number of other periodicals. Mr. Lawrence has no academic position, but is a private and independent...