Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Class Day as the time for a last fling sobered up Commencement Day considerably. Music, dancing, and the booths on the Common disappeared, and at the same time the actual exercises became less stiff. The one Latin, two Greek, and two Hebrew disputations gradually gave way to orations in English, the first of which was given in 1763 by Jedediah Huntington, a future Revolutionary War general...
Fogg Art Museum has arranged an exhibition of eighteenth century English silver especially for the ladies...
After an opening greeting by University Marshal Reginald T. Fitz '08, three students will deliver the traditional Commencement parts. Francis J. Dimento '48 will deliver the Latin Salutatory, "De Comitiis Proximis;" James Karens '48 the English Dissertation, on "An Attitude Towards Literature;" and Harold C. Passer '43 2G an oration on "The New Dollar Diplomacy...
...such repetition dulls French sensibilities, however, the lack of such basic themes in the Hollywood (or British) repertoire will insure a warm reception here, especially since that theme has been thoroughly seasoned with earthy humor unknown to the conventional dramatist and with backgrounds totally devoid of artificiality. Incidentally, the English titling is excellent...
...DeMille needs no sense of history, and little sense of taste; he has the film sense. All the picture's best scenes-the English army blurting through Marseille streets, the gnashing assault on Acre, the churning battle before Jerusalem-are masterly affirmations of cinema's first law: keep it moving...