Word: miltons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel Lawrence Batchelder '31 of Boston was elected captain of the Freshman hockey team last night to lead the sextet in its contest today with Milton Academy. The game will be played at 3 o'clock at Milton...
Bertie, the simple-minded bashful young gentleman is excellently acted by Milton Owen, being easily the best actor on the stage. His self-possession and unexaggerated performance go far to make the play very amusing. Next in the line of able performance comes the crude old man, Nick Van Alstyne, portrayed by Thomas Shearer, who, though a bit forced in the first act, becomes much more convincing and amusing as the play goes on-especially in his practicing how to appear and comport himself correctly in the presence of the snappy widow. The widow Olga Birbeck carries off the honors...
...Boyd attempts to deal with accepted classical writers much as criticism deals with contemporary authors, not with the pretentious and usually spurious dignity of an academic vocabulary, but with the same sneezes and jeers that are accorded a ham novelist in the current prints. Milton, Byron and Whitman were not unacquainted with the critical raspberry in their lifetimes, and it is certain that the mere getting out of the rubber-tired hack and rolling them off to the cemetery did not rectify their deficiencies, render more agreeable their not infrequent dullness, nor sublimate their frowsy cliches into epigrams...
...does not appear that Mr. Boyd is trying to jazz up his critical reputation by mere wanton attacks upon the traditional esteem in which such worthies as Milton, Dickens and Poe are held. He merely points out that to the sane man the theme of "Paradise Lost" is so much moral and cosmic spinach, and that since Milton selected this subject because it was what he regarded as literal truth, not fiction, the poem, for all its beauties, smacks somewhat of futility, as must any thesis as devoid of any slightest biological probability. Mr. Boyd merely remarks that...
Team B will journey to the Milton Club to meet the squash team of that club to meet the squash team of that club. The Freshman players will meet the class D team of the Harvard Club at Boston. The only University team to play in Cambridge today will be team C. which meets the Boston Athletic Association racquetmen...