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Guthrie McClintic, who has staged the current production of "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," will address Harvard and Radcliffe students at Longfellow Hall, Radcliffe, Friday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the second of the series of annual Winthrop Ames Memorial Lectures. Just returned from a front line tour of the Italian and French battle-fronts with a troupe including his wife, Katherine Cornell, McClintic will speak on "Theatre...
...writes about. It is a tribute to his scholarship that he can quote chapter and verse for every phrase in them, to his style that the reading flows along with no patchwork effect. To bring writers and writing back to the main body of life, as they were in Longfellow's time, to link the struggles of artists to the daily work of mechanics and farmers, to fill the background of his books with the ordinary stuff of daily living of most of the people-housekeeping, planting, building, harvesting, buying and selling, keeping well and keeping busy-this...
...over Longfellow's "grove and town" were uniformed students and other signs of war. Civilian enrollment, at 135, was down 75%. A quarter of the faculty of 65 was away on war leave. But Bowdoin was struggling, in the words of President Kenneth Charles Morton ("Casey") Sills, to keep "the flame of liberal education . . . ready for the day when it shall again become a beacon light...
...college was named for Massachusetts Governor James Bowdoin, whose son gave it gifts in cash and kind. Bowdoin in turn gave the Union proportionately more Civil Warriors than any other U.S. college and has produced more celebrities per square inch of campus than any rival. Among the celebrities was Longfellow's '25 classmate, Nathaniel Hawthorne, who, at an annual tuition-and-room cost of $34, highlighted four rowdy years with occasional bouts of cards and liquor...
...Robert Peter Tristram Coffin, poet and Bowdoin professor of English, who last week trod Longfellow's trail (in Brunswick's First Parish Church) and read a sesquicentennial poem of his own composition...