Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like Mr. Sinclair Lewis (TIME, May 17, THE PRESS), Herr Hauptmann issued a statement explaining why he deemed himself bound as an artist to decline an honor of this type: "I do not believe conscious leadership is possible in literature. Writers who are thus officially recognized by the state would form a group to which free writers would rightly object...
Since Gerhart Hauptmann is 64, ripe in honor, hoar in fame, no charge of "publicity seeking" was raised against the author of Vor Sonnenaufgang (Before Sunrise), precursor of the whole modern German realistic movement, Die versunkene Glocke (The Sunken Bell), and Rose Berndt...
King of Leland Stanford leaped over the bar in the high jump, cleared safely, won the event at 6 ft. 5 1/2 in., capturing the honor of another new record. That distance is as high as some doorsills...
...heroic poem entitled "The Malign Comedy" and surrounded by a frieze-like border that merits close scrutiny is given the place of honor in the number. The poet enjoys the eminently satisfying experience of visiting the nether regions and viewing those worthies who have intrigued his interest on the lecture platform. The reader will readily observe that the artist, too, enjoyed his work in depicting the nether regions. Despite the trace of bitterness always in evidence in an undergraduate's opinion of his intellectual antennae at the season of the finals, the epic is a worthy successor...
Harvard men have always stood with their country in time of war. During the revolution Harvard not only sent many of its students into the patriot army, but also seriously impaired its finances by converting its funds into currency with which to aid the cause Harvard's honor roll of the civil war and the world war is a long...