Word: pilgrims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoary antiquity to practically contemporaneous times, there are some highly pictorial spaces left comparatively blank. One such space, crammed with history not adequately fictionalized, is the period after Queen Elizabeth's death, when religious malcontents fled England for Holland, cleared out from there for a newer, presumably better world. Pilgrim Fathers & Mothers are the heroes & heroines of Authoress Carlisle's book. In We Begin she paints, with meticulous nicety of detail, an historical mural of extraordinary scope. Following muralist technique, she manages to make her characters striking but not too personal, her details vivid but not too bright. Only...
...bigot who loved Anne in order to save her soul, John a happy farmer who loved the earth and all its foison. Anne chose John, sending away Eleazar half mad with sanctity and lust. The brothers' contradictory natures clash throughout the story, symbolize for Authoress Carlisle contrary traits in Pilgrim Father psychology...
...manly stature he believes all men desire. Motive for that desire he finds twofold-"the longing to live happy and the dread of dying ordinary." This longing, this dread induce men to follow strange teachers, strange doctrines. Hipped on some, they hobble along on others. But the true pilgrim's progress is not forwarded so much by crutches as by a comforting rod & staff. Such a vade mecum Abbe Dimnet gracefully provides in the form of the True, the Beautiful and the Good, as approved by philosophers, improved by artists, lived by the saints. To discover about the True...
George Lyman Kittredge '32, Gurney Professor of English Literature, yesterday received the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature from Oxford University in England. On Tuesday, May 10, he was honored at a luncheon given by the Pilgrim Society of London, which was presided over by the Duke of Connaught...
With the Duke of Connaught, Uncle of King George of England, presiding, the Pilgrim Society of London held a luncheon yesterday in honor of George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature. The Pilgrim Society recently gave a similar luncheon in honor of Andrew Mellon, American Ambassador to the Court of St. James...