Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardly a place from which would be expected to come the theory that Gothic palaces do not a university make. Yet last week in Duke Forest, about five minutes' walk from the Gothic campus, 32 Duke Law School students celebrated their return to a simple life. Like Abraham Lincoln, they began to study law in log cabins...
...that the best place for barristers to learn law and social responsibility is in a quiet, simple atmosphere. Last summer he had five log cabins built as an experiment. One is a recreation centre. Eight students live and study in each of the others. But students are spared Abraham Lincoln's handicaps. They study not by firelight but by electric light, and they have steam heat, modern plumbing, maid service. They go to classes in the Law School with other students, retire to their cabins for reading and bull sessions. By their fellow undergraduates, who went last week...
...Lincoln in Illinois (by Robert E. Sherwood; produced by the Playwrights' Company). First production of the five playwrights (Maxwell Anderson, S.N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice, Robert E. Sherwood) who last season decided to form an independent producing unit, Abe Lincoln in Illinois should see them triumphantly launched. An episodic story of Lincoln from his early Ann Rutledge days to his election as President, it once more demonstrates the magic of the Great Emancipator's personality...
...Lincoln is the most living and appealing figure in U.S. history because he expresses with the greatest glow the national dream of democracy and freedom. He is therefore, in addition to being a warm, sturdy, exciting human being, a permanent symbol who serves U.S. drama as the house of Atreus served the Greek, or as Faust and Don Juan serve the writers of the world. Lincoln's story is well-known, well-loved, an advantage for the playwright greater than the most smashing plot would be; for an audience bringing with it a quivering mass of associations is ready...
...advance students, and shown in the display, are designs for a large bus terminal in Park Square, Boston; for the development of a shopping center, parking garage, and bus and subway terminals in Brattle Square, Cambridge; for a beachside community development at Cohasset, Mass.; for a new school in Lincoln, Mass.; and for a large scale housing project for workers in the $2,000 income bracket...