Word: gilberts
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...Puritans have the annual Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Christmas play, monthly House dinners with prominent speakers, and the hobby clubs. There are the dances--two a term--and an annual exhibit for the artistic, not to mention a movie cycle and foreign language talks. Members participate in the only House field of concentration discussion groups yet started...
Winthrop House will offer its second annual portion of Gilbert and Sullivan on the evenings of April 14 and 15 when it presents "H. M. S. Pinafore" in the Junior Common Room...
This year's operetta will be directed and staged by Samuel V. K. Willson '50, who directed Winthrop's production of "Trial by Jury" last year, and the Canterbury Club's "Patience" this year. The Puritans started the tradition of giving Gilbert and Sullivan operettas last year...
...belief in Greek is greater than ever," said 84-year-old Gilbert Murray, who 45 years ago served as model for Shaw's brash young classicist. Murray, an author and statesman and, until his resignation in 1936, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, is one of the few men left in a mechanistic age who still "know Greek" and believes in it as part of the education of the full...
...Ideal Pattern. When Australian-born Gilbert Murray entered St. John's College, Oxford, in the 1880s, the great Greek Scholar Benjamin Jowett, translator of Plato and Master of Balliol College, was one of the most venerated and influential men in England; Gladstone and his Liberals seemed to be among the eternal forces in English politics, and the poetry of Tennyson and Swinburne was much admired. In years to follow, if fewer & fewer men bore the hallmark of the Greek scholar and the classicist, it was not Gilbert Murray's fault...