Word: plautus
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...struggling to open its petals. Several original undergraduate plays have been produced at Harvard this year, the New York Dramatic Critic's Circle is formed, creating an intelligent board to hand laurels to dramatic artists for the first time in America, and the Harvard Classical Club revives Plautus' Mostellaria; there is indeed a year to make Aristotle chuckle, and the Harvard under-graduate mutter a prayer of thanksgiving that he was in college...
When Maxwell Anderson, and Eugene O'Neill, and Clifford Odets are forgotten, and the Empire State Building is one with the Coliseum, and Beacon Hill is of no more consequence than the Palatine, Plautus will still be a name that is known by a favoured few, and the man of the future will look back to a couple of days after the Ides of April, A.D. 1936, and call it a glimmering of light in an age that was dark with a complex gloom...
...Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, April 15, 16, and 17, the Classical Club will present the Tercentenary Latin Play, the "Mostellaria" of Plautus at the Sanders Memorial Theatre. It will recall the early years of the College, when Latin textbooks, lectures, and conversations were a normal part of student life...
With rehearsals getting off to an early start in Holden Chapel tomorrow evening the Classical Club swings into line for its Torcentenary spring production of the "Mostellaria" of Plautus...
...Plautus, Torence, and Livy are highly recommended as interesting studies in Latin B, while Greek B is the only other classical course in the good graces of the guide. History 1, that old bugaboo which drives many into electing Government 1, is surprisingly lauded, for "Dominating the course is Professor Merriman, who from the fall of Rome to the peace of Versailles sees that the leading facts, figures, and events are portrayed with coherence and continuity...