Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of this dinner to foster better relations among foreign students and to help acquaint them with American business life...
...dawn of Saxon history, with heroic ideals looming in twilit feudal minds. Aethelwold, the king's foster-brother, prepares to ride into the dawn for the king's bride-a flax-haired Lancelot for a bucolic Arthur. They pledge their fraternity over staked swords. . . . Later, in a druidic Devon wood, Aelfrida's beauty twists this pledge. It is too early in history for a Lancelot to live with his own deceit. He buries his dagger in his own chest for brother-love, which is yet held above love for woman. Hasty critics have objected that such...
...wife. Aelfrida, daughter of the Thane of Devon, famed for beauty, is in his mind. With Saxon stolidity, however, he withholds decision until assured that the lady, whom he has never personally inspected, merits her reputation. On the errand of verification and summons (if justified), he despatches his loyal foster-brother, Aethelwold (Edward Johnson), whose attitude toward ladies is thus described: "Should a wench but breathe upon him in the dark, he would bury himself till the smell of her were off him." Aethelwold rides off on his mission, to a lusty-spirited folk tune, sung by the chorus...
...that the young lady likes her man without matrimony. An unfortunately discovered roadhouse dalliance leads to her being forced to accept him with the conventional wedding ring. In Act II, emerges the conflict between business and wife-petting. Husband (Allan Dine-hart) woos his Mexican oil wells. Wife (Claiborne Foster) languishes in the company of an artist friend powerful with women. Says Husband in plaintive self-defense: "A man who can make love in a falling market may be a hero but he is a damn poor businessman." Into the distress of the last act advances Mother...
...other hand it cannot be questioned that the present world situation makes an appeal to Christian students for the furtherance of the aims of the S. F. F. entirely justified. I feel sure that there are many in Harvard University who will lend their support to this attempt to foster "some sort of intelligent cooperation and understanding" among the students of the world on this basis...