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Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, has announced the subjects for his annual Christmas reading. He will read "Desire," a new sketch by James Stephens, author of the celebrated "Crock of Gold," and selections from Browning, Benchrey and Leacock...
Perhaps it is too much to hope that among ten thousand thesis writers at Harvard there may be that Cantabrigian Ed Wynn, that perfect fool who, like another Leacock, will bring nonsense laurels to the American university...
MONEY WRITES!-Upton Sinclair-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). Once again fuming, foaming Upton Sinclair girds himself beyond all reason, leaps on his lame but willing steed, and (like Stephen Leacock's famed knight) rides off in all directions. According to Upton, the successful writers of today write either consciously or unconsciously for the benefit of nasty Wall Street. Most of Money Writes! is devoted to a mildly interesting, not very convincing attempt to prove this theory. One by one Joseph Herges-heimer, Gertrude Atherton, et al., are pointed at with the finger of scorn and it is all pretty...
...pupils spoke no English, Ontario finally recalled "Regulation 17." At Toronto. Last week the University of Toronto, province of Ontario, celebrated its centenary. Twenty-seven persons received honorary degrees, among them: Charles Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to the U. S.; George Howard Ferguson, Premier of Ontario; Stephen Leacock, economist & humorist; Frederick Paul Keppel, President of the Carnegie Foundation; John Huston Finley, editor of of New York Times; Dr. Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell University; Ellen Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley College; Henry M. Tory, President of the University of Alberta; Richard W. Livingston, President & Vice Chancellor of Queens University, Belfast...
...Quality of the Educational Process in the United States and in Europe" in the Foundation's current bulletin. Dr. Learned contrasts the disciplined convergence upon a single field, in European scholarship, with the dissipation of energy and attention permitted in U. S. classrooms, where Humorist Stephen Leacock pretended to find a student "taking Turkish, music and architecture not because he meant to be choirmaster in a Turkish cathedral but because they came...