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THAT NICE YOUNG COUPLE-Francis Hackett - Boni, Liveright ($2.00). Floundering fearfully through the litter of spare adjectives, similes and metaphors that has been accumulating in his office for years, Critic Hackett of The New Republic and elsewhere finally gets his first novel out in the open and into sustained motion on Page 245, where childless Eleanor Byrd Beale from the Middle West is about to meet Demi-Artist Stephen Tannay from the South, fall really in love for the first time in her life and be willfully unfaithful to her husband, Lawyer Edward Beale of Brooklyn, Harvard and Manhattan...
Three Professors have received appointments for the coming year to give courses at the University as visiting lecturers, it was announced last night. Oliver Elton, Professor of English literature, will come from the University of Liverpool; Charles, W. Hackett, associate Professor of Latin-American history, will come from the University of Texas; and Eric T. bell, Professor of mathematics, from the University of Washington...
...visiting lecturer in Latin-American History and Economics for the coming year Dr. Charles W. Hackett will have charge of the courses regularly given by Professor Clarence H. Haring, who has been granted a year's leave of absence to carry on research is South America, Dr. Hackett has taught at Leland Stanford and the University of California, going to the University of Texas in 1918. During the summer of 1922 he was exchange professor at the National University of Mexico, and spent two summers of research in the national archives of that country...
...reception when introduced to U. S. audiences by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Chicago, accustomed to the rush and roar of Wolverines and 20th Century Limiteds, is a trifle blase about locomotives-particularly musical ones. Tlie audience reacted to Mr. Honegger's composition with chuckles rather than cheers. One Hackett, reviewer for The Evening Post, was particularly amused. He commented in a mood of tolerant banter. Among other things, he remarked of Mr. Honegger: ". . . he might as well amuse himself with this toy as any other...
That the State Department should have extended the invitation does not indicate a departure from the established attitude of the government toward the arts. Nothing more than a state courtesy, Mr. Hughes has merely returned the compliment of the French Ministry of Fine Arts in inviting James K. Hackett to Paris in 1921 to play "Macbeth...