Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's manuscript, it was explained, is the true original copy, since it shows unmistakable signs of alteration and revision...
Words few thick among manuscript authorities and relatives of the composer until officials of the University pointed out that the Reverend Samuel F. Smith, who wrote the song, was an obliging fellow who often made copies in his own hand for friends who wanted them...
...shears, clipping and collating Greek, Latin, French and English Bibles in parallel columns. Fear of being "exposed to the malignant perversions of those who make every word from me a text for new misrepresentations and calumnies" kept him from ever publishing it. The Government later bought the manuscript from his family, placed it in the Smithsonian, where it still remains...
Part III affects to be a manuscript found in a lake. Actually it is a diary of Kierkegaard's own unhappy love affair. Said he, "I am experiencing more poetry than there is in all romances put together." His problem: "Dare a soldier on the frontier (spiritually understood) take a wife, a soldier on duty at the extremest outpost, who is fighting day and night . . . against the robber bands of an innate melancholy. . . ?" In his soul-searching the diarist approaches the last stage in life's way, the religious...
Chiefly, there is the Dramatic Club. Its new schedule of four plays a year instead of two should be a pat on the back to any undergraduate playwright with a burning manuscript in his pocket. And the Student Union Dramatic Club, too, should pop up again this spring with as good a production as their "The Cradle Will Rock" and "Waiting For Lefty" of the last two years...