Word: miltons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Bentink-Smith '37, of Milton, has been elected Junior Varsity manager, and Frank James Johnson, 2d '37, of St. Paul, Minnesota, associate Junior Varsity manager...
...club has planned an active spring schedule with a meet against Milton Flying Club sometime in April and plans to send pilots to the Northampton meet on May 4 where they will meet competition from many colleges, including Smith...
...next to last concert on the winter term list, the Instrumental Clubs will perform tonight at 8.30 o'clock at the Milton Club. Featured on the program is a banjo duet by Edward R. Sargent '36 and Franklin P. Whitbeck...
Rose Macaulay's brief (153 pp.) study of Milton is a neat literary lecture. Though her biography, like Author Belloc's, is well this side idolatry, she seems more awed by the grandeur of the Miltonic tradition, approaches his fame with an informed but sight-seeing mind. She does not share Belloc's sturdy contempt for Milton's rodomontadinous prose, sees in some of it "Milton at his extraordinary best and worst, splendid, exasperating, scurrilous, moving, repulsive, and grandiose by turns...
Neither biographer has any light to shed on Milton's darkly unhappy domestic life. His first wife left him after a month, was forced back to him three years later; the other two he married after he was blind. His only son died young, and his understandably unfilial daughters, according to tradition, were made to read aloud to him in languages he had never troubled to teach them. And Biographer Macaulay. like Belloc. advances no cogent reason for Milton's immunity at Charles II's restoration...