Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phone call from Mr. Jewett late last night brought to light the above mentioned scarcity, which if it continues, will prevent the production of the Repertory's "Salome", featuring one of the Braggiotti's which one Mr. Jewett did not reveal...
...suggested cures themselves show taints of evil. Now that the cry is against undergraduate tendency to specialization, Mr. Wells will not find unanimous applause for the graduate school system he would build in its stead. To end intercollegiate athletics would certainly keep the serious as well as the light-minded from college. A school can suffer from an overdose of learning just as surely as from too highly emphasized athletics. There is more than one way to kill either a man or a college...
...Straton should be made to understand that the guiding light of the American Mercury is not good-hearted and that he makes his living by being anything but good-hearted Rob him of his cynicism, his black arts, and one robs him of his daily bread. Were he of a Pollyannie nature his writings would not be accepted as holy scripture by numerous intellectuals, both young and old, scattered over the countryside. When one wants sweetness and light there are other sources; but advocates of the devil who can amuse and corrupt as well as Mr. Mencken...
...second item concerns today's meeting between W. E. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, and the chairmen of the Yale and Princeton Athletic Associations. The circumstances which make the meeting significant are public property. In the light of a previous rapprochement between Yale and Princeton in the matter of athletic policy it is to be hoped that today will find the so-called "Big Three," united in the only union that can be permanent leadership in adjusting sport with conflicting and counter-balancing interests...
...also during the past year he has been editor of the "Granta", the best known university journal in Europe. His first book, "Jack of all Trades", a miscellany of verse and prose, was published by Ernest Benn, Ltd. early in June. And his reputation as a writer of light verse is not entirely confined to England, for more than once his initials have been found in "Life...