Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other Class Day speakers will be Lawrence Trevor Grimm '29, of Los Angeles, California, who will deliver the Class Oration, Robeson Bailey '29, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, who is to read the Class Poem, and Chauncey Deverecux Stillman '29, of New York City, who will deliver the Class Ode. The Chorister is Richard Stedman Holden '29, of Bennington, Vermont...
...almost needless and completely useless to say that this book is as slight, irrelevant and disappointing an approach to a noble theme that we have ever read. There is no depth, no irony, only a flat-chested humor of the most nasal resonnance. The diction throughout is based on the questionable philosophy that France is full of Frenchmen. Little Arlette, the dyer-kiss do-de-o-do (but I loof heem, ah mon Dieu how I loof heem). Jacques the melancholy boulevardier (you ave hask me eef I spik ze English?), and Mimi the cockeyed marmoset, are really...
...warm enigma that he would not read...
...strive to read...
...Hampshire, where he works laboriously all day, shoots facile pool far into the night. Tall and slender, he has the drooped shoulders of the scholar. Shy, quiet, secretive, he has a brilliant occasional smile. Accused of an obscurity as great as Browning's he murmurs: "Why can't they read one word after another...