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...Richards over Dubliners-as shriveling a statement of the artist-publisher situation as has ever seen print; an extraordinarily beautiful letter he wrote to Ibsen when he was 19; two invective poems which suggest Swift's and are quite as good. One of them, addressed to the Dublin littérateurs he held in such contempt, ends with these proud lines...
...Faculty at Harvard has previously served at Amherst, Michigan, and Yale Universities, and at New Hampshire State Normal, and his former connections with Harvard have been as a student, 1897 to 1899; as Phi Beta Kappa Poet, 1916; and as the recipient of the honorary degree of Litt...
Unfulfilled ambition of the late, superserious Sir Edward Grey was to write a leader for the London Times Literary Supplement on the works of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. This summer, bald, easygoing Author Wodehouse received an honorary D. Litt. from Oxford, drew plaudits for his style (TIME, July 10). Though many a lesser humorist has crept up behind the Wodehouse technique, tried to sprinkle salt on its tail, only the Old Master himself can really catch it. He does it by rewriting everything at least three times, concentrating and sharpening his effervescent prolixity. Thus revised, markedly improved since its serialization...
SABER: Johnson (Y) defeated Doyle (H), 5-3. Litt (Y) defeated Doyle (H), 5-3, Batchelder (H), 5-3. Batchelder (H) defeated Scully (Y), 5-4, and Johnson (Y), 5-3. Doyle (H) defeated Scully...
Robert Frost (Litt. D., '37, honorary), poet and teacher, will be the guest of honor at the Adams House dinner tonight, and will speak afterward in the dining room on "The Figure a Poem Makes," Illustrated with readings from his poems...