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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patently injudicious attack on Professor Lowes, and it isn't as though the aggrieved author confined himself to the existing and obvious defects in the courses conducted by him: he is personal to the point of impertinence, sarcastic far beyond the limits of taste. That the examinations in English 72 and 32 are primarily challenges to the omniscient powers of that admirable institution, the Widow's, anybody, most of all Professor Lowes himself, will admit. That this state of things is comic and fantastic, as well as probably futile, Septimus Cromarty does well to point out, but to indulge...
Above the general level of discreditable mediocrity and sheer futility of the issue, stands, as his verses have stood elsewhere, Mr. J. R. Agee's rendering of the Horation "Parcius junctas quatiunt fenestras" into first rate English poetry. His lines are at once instinct with poetic feeling and accurate as paraphrase. The stanza overflow is capably handled and the meter admirably suitable. It seems that wherever Mr. Ageo prints his work the level of the periodical is thereby raised, and it is with the pious wish that we mav hear more from him in these transalpine wastes that we conclude...
Anthropology 1, Botany 3, Chemistry 4, Economics 6a, Economics 7a, Economics 38, English 2, English 7, English 79, English 91, Fine Arts 1c (at Fogg), Fine Arts if, Fine Arts 5e, Fine Arts 15g (at Fogg), French 6, Government 19, Greek G, Greek 8, History 1, History 13, History 15, Italian 10, Latin 12, Mathematics A, Mathematics 2, Mathematics 3, Military Science 1, Philosophy A, Philosophy 8a, Psychology 24, Romance Philology 4, Social Ethics 1a, Spanish...
Died. James Brander Matthews, 77, famed New Yorker; of influenza; in Manhattan. He was the son of a New Orleans businessman. Educated at Columbia University, he taught there for 32 years, holding the first chair specifically devoted to the drama in any U. S. University. He married English Actress Ada Smith (1873) who died in 1924. He wrote more than 35 books?essays, drama criticism, plays, tales. Great in geniality, he drew about him potent men of his time: William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Theodore Roosevelt. The friend of thousands, he once received a book from Mark Twain...
...Baudelaire, the tormented Catholic Satanist, sometimes achieved in poetry grandeur that: was Wagnerian. In French literature his niche will eventually be tha of his kinspirit Poe in English. Once Baudelaire wrote "Yesterday I felt the wing of imbecility brush me." It was also perhaps the tip of the wing of greatness...