Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given an opportunity to commit to memory all the more masterly verses of the learned poets superlative erotic and philosophical work. Professor Parry, Dr. Chase, Mr. Richards, and Mr. Westgate, are all well fitted to introduce the diffident Freshman and the difficult Sophomore to the delights of the golden age of Roman poetry. Professor Parry does, perhaps, the best work, because of the tremendous gusto which he evidently takes in the masterpieces which he expounds. Mr. Westgate does the worst teaching, which is still speaking very highly of him, because he spends too much time on the first assignments...
...problem which he suggests, the special needs of the more mature and interested students. Mr. Norton E. Long's 'Humanist Critique of Harvard' defends the thesis that undergraduates should be required to concentrate in 'something central' that is to say, humanistic, Mr. Edward M. Barnet's 'Utopia on Golden Crutches' is rather trife and ineffective...
...days played at Springfield, have been familiar to countless readers since the middle '90s, will shortly appear upon the screen and over the radio in strictly modern dress. No longer a part of the New Haven tradition of bulldogs and turtle-necked sweaters, when the original Mortaritya and their golden lucks were a fragrant reality and when fence rush and freshman fraternities both flourished as glorious campus institutions. Frank is being brought up to date by Gilbert Patten, who created him under the name of Burt L. Standish. Now he will probably live in his rewritten version in Harkness Brick...
...golden curtains at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House shot up one afternoon last week on a stage for an instant ominously black. Trumpets blared a sudden, stunning dissonance. Richard Strauss's Elektra, the most hectic and hard-driven of operas, began its premiere at the Metropolitan, its first performance in New York in 22 years...
...there is a golden book, the vade mecum of everything worth keeping by in life, it is the memories of men known. This is the Vagabond's creed. Today his spirit will haunt old McKinlock, and perhaps will gain, as William Butler Yeats himself was the gainer from those afternoons at the stable beside Kelmscott House...