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...them to donate money for the building of a church; then to skip the hills and return to the city bootleggers, with the church fund. Little did they reck that Red Belwyn (Margaret Lawrence), beautiful crookess of the gang, would discover LOVE through the burly person of Devil Ace Gilson (Louis Bennison), head of the Southern Gentlemen's Association of Moonshiners. But she does. And the evildoers drink wood alcohol, thereby losing forever their sight of God's true Heaven. This melodrama, which might have been good satire-comedy, is both thick and thin...
Professor Gilson's Harvard lectures are all over except for the echoes scheduled in the next few days. His fame as a scholar and philosopher had long preceded his visit which revealed above all else a very charming gentleman. Those fortunate enough to have attended either of his courses or his series or public lectures will long remember with what an unusual combination of objectivity and sympathy he dealt with the various representatives of Medieval thought. They were presented not as "ists" perambulating a pet "ism" but as men straining their eyes to catch a glint of the truth behind...
However those who had any contact with him often felt that Professor Gilson's choice of field was a comparatively unimportant accident. As is so often the case with a great personality what he taught about Aquinas or Abelard, interesting though it was, acted merely as a bridge from his mind to those of his listeners. With communication once established first papers for citizenship in the super national, super temporal country of cultivated minds were quickly passed across. Yet, though Professor Gilson fought against Germany without a trace of hate, his type of mental distinction is very French. Only...
Professor Etienne Gilson, Exchange Professor at the University from the Sorbonne, will lecture on Monday afternoon on "Jules Romains et l'Unanisme." This lecture, the last of a series on "Les ldees et les Lettres", will be delivered in French in Emerson J at 4 o'clock. The lectures of this series, arranged under the auspices of the Department of Philosophy, have been well attended and much appreciated by the Cambridge public...
Grosseteste and the Oxford School to which he belonged will form the subject of a lecture by Professor Gilson at 9 o'clock this morning in Emerson...