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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Does Wisdom Signify?" is the title of the third Charles Eliot Norton lecture to be given by Robert Frost in the New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock tonight...
...wisdom the standard of excellence in the arts?" is the paraphrased title of tonight's talk. Mr. Frost believes that there are four fundamental classes of poets, those who value poetry for its linguistic or purely technical content, those who find its worth chiefly in its character as a historical document, those who use the manifestation of wisdom as a poetic criterion, and lastly, those who find the philosophy in poetry its most valuable element...
...Frost will discuss chiefly the third class this evening, and will attempt to explain whether wisdom expressed in one's writing is the quality most to be desired in a person who produces creative literature...
...Woodward's Gardens", a poetic adventure concerning two monkeys and a burning glass, is one of Robert Frost's own poems which he will read this afternoon in Emerson D at 4.30 o'clock. Among other well-known selections will be "Birches", "Leaves Compared with Flowers", and "Stopping by a Woods on a Snowy Evening...
Giving Robert Frost the attention his art deserves, Harvard men have flocked to the Charles Eliot Norton lectures in such droves as to necessitate the hanging out of the standing-room-only sign a New Lecture Hall. The repeated packing of Emerson D. last year necessitated this change of venue, which happily has proven all too confining for a Frost-bitten audience. The next rung of the ladder is Sanders Theatre which holds about three hundred more people than the New Lecture Hall and is Harvard's largest auditorium. A change to this new location should be made...