Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pieces, "Nothing but Money," and "Court Favor" will be presented. "Nothing but Money" was written by Miss Margaret Champney, a special student at Radcliffe, of Lynnfield Centre, and is one of the two plays between which the MacDowell Fellowship was divided this year. It is a story of quaint New England life...
...many books of interest. Among the first to be mentioned are the William Belden Noble Lectures on "The Spiritual Message of Dante," delivered here last year by Canon Boyd-Carpenter of West-minster Abbey, England. There are included in the volume four ancient portraits of Dante and some notable, quaint reproductions from the illustrations to Lord Vernon's famous "Inferno." Canon Boyd-Carpenter, for twenty-seven years Bishop of Ripon, has long been recognized as a student of Dante, though this is the first book he has ever written on the subject. His lectures here were very popular among students...
...country as to delve into its early history and draw comparisons with the present. The same is true of the University, following the country's fortunes almost from the first settlement. So it is not amiss, on the 150th anniversary of the burning of Harvard Hall, to read the quaint letter of President Holyoke's daughter, and realize the changes of so many years. Apparatus estimated at the value of fifteen hundred dollars, five thousand books and pamphlets-the largest library in America-and some furniture were lost in the Harvard Hall fire. As a result, "Our college...
...Some quaint and amusing side-lights on old-fashioned Harvard are given in the "Journal of Jasper Danckaerts" and in Arthur Standwood Pier's "The Story of Harvard," both of which have recently been published. Much of Harvard's hold upon her sons is due to the great body of tradition which is her inheritance, and the two books will add much to the undergraduate's realization of what has gone before...
...succession of stage pictures, pictures that are a marvel of stage craft--pictures with reality, with geographical and historical interest, and at times of rare loveliness. The sprightly opening scenes take us to the old French colony of Nova Scotia, with the spinning wheel and the quaint costumes of Acadian peasants. The soft sylvan scene representing a shore of the southern Mississippi has peculiar charm, and the weirdness of the Indian wigwam and the trapper's hut in the wilds of northern Michigan brings to us again the attractiveness of some old-time plays. In the latter part...