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Meanwhile, the Class of 1936 will spend the day at Essex County Club in Manchester, Mass. The main activities will be golf, tennis, swimming, and eating. The Glee Club's Far Eastern Tour Group will give a concert at Sanders at 8:30 p.m., and the formal Senior Spread will be held in the Eliot House Courtyard from...
...influenza epidemic and George S. Kaufman's first play opened in Manhattan in 1918, and the play was vastly less contagious. With dour glee, the 28-year-old writer went around advising people to avoid crowds-see Someone in the House." The flop was satisfying proof to Kaufman of "the gross inadequacies of the human race"-from which, as his collaborator Moss Hart observed, the playwright suffered daily. But he mined his suffering profitably; over the years he produced more memorable wisecracks and more hit comedies than anyone else in the U.S. theater. Last week. Kaufman died...
...Glee Club will present the third of its annual concerts this evening at 7 p.m. on the steps of Widener. The presentation will include works by Brahms and Stravinsky, as well as folk songs and traditional Harvard songs...
There is a convention readily accepted by the young that they be as embarrassed by the personal as their elders are. For only those elders (we young surmise) can afford to treat emotional bosom-baring with the same glee that we hopefully accept the newest breasts of the French white slave exporters; and only the elders can be as sumptuously indifferent to such revelation as we imagine we ought to be. But tortured youth is famously ignorant in its desire to be duped, and the least affectation that can promote an opportunity for uninterrupted enjoyment of soul-searching (without...
...vast was his canvas that mistakes were inevitable. Not even his astonishing erudition could save him from them, and his colleagues pounced on them with cries that expressed responses all the way from learned indignation to simple glee. He has been accused of ignorance, of dabbling in mythology at the expense of fact, of distorting fact to bolster false theories, of writing a prose poem, of trying to achieve an education in the process of writing a book. The fact is that a lot of the criticism was justified. It was also fact that with all of its errors...