Word: profs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brady, acted by John Barrymore. Cleves Kincaid wrote Common Clay, Jane Cowl's success in 1915. Mamma's Affair was the work of Rachel Barton Butler. Two years ago there was You and I, by Philip J. Q. Barry. Other craftsmen who learned their trade from Prof. Baker are Eugene O'Neill, Edward Sheldon, Edward Knobloch, David Carb, Jules Eckert Goodman, Kenneth MacGowan (producer) and Lee Simonson (scenic director...
...Prof. Baker started teaching English at Harvard in 1888, the year after his graduation. The Workshop grew out of student enthusiasm for his course, "English 47," and soon attracted members from outside the Harvard enrollment. Young women from Radcliffe College and Boston Town joined in the productions, budding playwrights from other colleges took "English 47" as postgraduate work. Theatredom and the critics cocked an eye whenever the Workshop had something new to offer, and one Broadway producer offered a standing prize of $500 for the best Workshop play each year...
...their felicitations with the hope that young people would not be encouraged to express themselves "before they have thought and observed vitally, and during those years when they might better be acquiring a background that would enhance all that they might subsequently care to express." In a word, that Prof. Baker's expensive work at Yale be dedicated, not to the alleviation of yearnings of the undergraduate ego, but to the serious business of fostering a national drama...
...translator is Prof. James Moffatt of Glasgow, famed prototype of Scottish plain living, high thinking, hard wor-r-rking. His was the first of many famous new translations of the New Testament. His translation of the Old Testament may be complete; but the book which Publisher Doran put on sale contained only the books Genesis to Esther inclusive?i. e., about half the Old Testament, the half in which most of the events and incidents of Jewish history are recorded...
Finally, as regards the sponsoring of biology research here, is not the recent (and too much unnoticed) resignation of Dr. Osterhout from the University parallel to the department of Prof. Baker." E. S. Castle...