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...list of men who have drifted here from New Haven is a long and distinguished one, including Dean Bundy, Archibald MacLeish, Dean Brooks, V. O. Key, Andrew Gleason, David Owen, Kingman Brewster, Whiting, and many others. Yale also has its share of defectors, men like Paul Hammond, Blitzer, Robert Lane, Richard Ruggles, H. Bradford Westerfield, and James Tobin. Besides the momentous choice of football loyalties, these people who have had associations with both schools have some interesting observations about the different characteristics of each...
...last half century, while speech has elsewhere become a much more formidable academic discipline, Harvard's original dislike for the "elocutionary movement" remains unchanged by contemporary circumstances. The current Boylston Professor, Archibald MacLeish, is a poet, a situation reflecting Harvard's current lack of interest in speech training. Even though Professor MacLeish has expressed his support for greater teaching of the speech arts, the University's speech training is conducted in a sadly limited manner...
...greatest flaw of modern civilization is its inability to "feel" and "imagine," Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, told a University of Minnesota audience Sunday...
...MacLeish spoke on "Poetry and Journalism" at the eighth of the University's Gideon Seymour lectures, a series named for a late Minneapolis newspaper editor...
Knowledge without feeling is not knowledge and leads only to "public irresponsibility and indifference, and conceivably to ruin," MacLeish asserted...