Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Burchell, Secretary of the Italy-America Society, will give an illustrated lecture on "The Rebirth of Imperial Rome" at the Union at 8:15 o'clock tonight. Held under the joint auspices of the Union and the Circolo Italiano, the lecture will be open to all members of the University...
Professor Charles E. Rugh of the University of California has given an old saw a picturesque rebirth. The colleges, he asserts "heap knowledge upon a student like hay" and then say "stack it yourself." This complaint is nothing but the platitude, dear to all educational declaimers, that method is more essential than fact, reason than memory. Still admitting the great age of this truism, one cannot but be glad of an occasional restatement to refresh an ideal...
...enough for college dramatic clubs and workshops merely to advance the mechanical technique of staging plays. A race of dramatists is even more necessary. If the prediction to Halcott Glover that by a rebirth of idealism drama will be swung from its morbid tendency to realism and attain its true "place in human and international under standing" is correct, it would seem that the first signs of a dramatic revival ought to appear in the work of college and universities; for seeds of idealism find but scant nourishment along. Broadway Should Princeton's new theatre inspire talented dramatists as well...
...portraits, perhaps, of the founders of the University. Here, too, could be kept the relics of the earlier University, now for the most part buried unknown in the vaults of Widener. Massachusetts Hall might become inside, as it now is without, typical of the founders of Harvard; its rebirth and refitting would be a more significant and suitable memorial of Harvard's dead than any conceivable monument...
Gloomier and Gloomier. In a recent London book called The Coming Renaissance 14 British and two American writers all strike, in differing degrees, a hopeful note. One comments on the approach of church union in America; another on the new interest in education and the rebirth of religious discussion; a third on the interest in upbuilding the health of the human race. To the various writers (two of whom are women, five University professors, three bishops, two canons and two clergymen), these signs indicate another Renaissance age in religion. But to W. R. Inge, " gloomy Dean " of St. Paul...