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...John Carroll Shoe '23--"The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes...
...fifty years later it was still a favorite theme for polite dispute. The occasion on which Johnson coined this mouth-filling dictum is memorable for another reason; -- the attentive Boswell for once disagreed with his master's defense of the play, and declared "the gaiety and heroines of a highwayman very captivating to a youthful imagination", and a temptation which "it requires a cool and strong judgment to resist". Boswell was not alone in his brave opposition; no loss a figure than Edmund Burke "thought the literary merit of "The Beggar's Opera' small and its social effect injurious...
...concourses which attended Charles Duval, Dick Turpin, Jack Sheppard and other criminal worthies on their way to the gibbet at Tyburn and Montfaucon as the case might be. More recently this country witnessed the public testimonials paid to the life and character of Jesse James, Civil War guerrilla and highwayman, whose dashing bank raids are now so much affected. James was shot from behind by a comrade, Bob Ford, as he lay concealed in his hiding place. The American public was angered and the slayer became the synonym for treachery and ingratitude...
...Boylston Prizes for Elocution held last week, A. A. Rouner '20, and F. C. Packard '20, were awarded the two first prizes of $30 each. Their addresses dealt respectively with the "American Standard," taken from a speech of Booker T. Washington '96, and a poem by Alfred Noyes, "The Highwayman." Three second prizes of $20 each were also awarded as follows: R. E. Eckstein '20, "Joan of Arc," by Quincy; V. A. Kramer '18 ocC., extracts from a speech of President Wilson on the League of Nations; E. B. Schwults '19, "The Monroe Doctrine." The judges were Dean Fenn...
This criticism applies to Mr. Fay's story of "The Penitent Highwayman," to "The Festive Season," which could appear with slight verbal changes in the Christmas number of any college paper year after year, and especially to "A Late Spring," a story in which Mr. Cuthbert Wright subtly analyzes the emotional crisis of a young man who takes himself very, very seriously, and falls in love at first sight with a girl who is already engaged. He lives in the Bronx, or Kensington, or Evansville--one cannot tell; he has been to school in England or America, and to Harvard...