Word: inns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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December 20-Lincoln's Inn...
...reads the shingle over the door of a little inn at Siasconset, Mass., on cool, sandy, windswept Nantucket Island. Within, the sessions of the 'Sconset Summer School have been going on for many weeks. The school was founded in 1922 as "The School of Opinion" by Frederic C. Howe, political economist, onetime U. S. Commissioner of Immigration. Its first three periods of the 1924 season were devoted to Psychology and Psychoanalysis, to Art and Literature, to Politics and International Affairs. Last week the fourth session, on Opinion, began...
...Near the inn, in fishermen's dwellings, bungalows, and a row of neat Summer cottages, dwells the heterogeneous, shifting "student body." Coming and going, staying or leaving, are members of both sexes and various generations?novelists, doctors, lawyers, merchants, a playwright who challenges the lecturers, a Lucy Stone Leaguer, a judge from South Carolina who calls himself a "Freshman at 60" because he is going to school at the University of South Carolina...
They pay their fees, attend the lectures or not, as they see fit, sit in groups at the little inn over fish dinners and feasts of the intellect. During past weeks, among the lecturers have been: Sinclair Lewis (Bolshevism in books), Floyd Dell (psychology), Prof. Richard Swann Lull of Yale University (zoology...
...town from the quiet of Vermont hills is trial enough, without writing about town authors. Therefore, I am choosing one of the Vermont group with which to reopen my column after an ever-so-slight vacation. Sara Cleghorn has been lecturing at the School of English, Bread Loaf Inn, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. She is poet, novelist, essayist. Those of you who read The Atlantic Monthly know her work well. I had always heard of her as one of the group of writers who live near or in Manchester, Vt.?a friend of Dorothy Canfield Fisher and of Robert...