Word: robert
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...meeting of the Graduate Club in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House last night. Professor Henry Van Dyke of Princeton delivered a very interesting lecture, on "Robert Louis Stevenson." Professor Van Dyke spoke of Stevenson as a stylist, a constructor of stories and as a moralist. He mentioned Stevenson's early ambition to become a writer and the desperate real with which he worked towards that end. "The lesson of Stevenson's life," he said, "is that it is a fine thing to be brave." Professor Van Dyke, in speaking of the precision in the choice of words which...
Professor Henry Van Dyke of Princeton University will address the Graduate Club in Phillips Brooks House this evening at 8 o'clock on "Robert Louis Stevenson." The address will take the form of a discussion of the value of Stevenson's contributions to nineteenth century prose, and will include an estimate of his character. A few selections from Stevenson's work will be read...
Graduate Club. Robert Louis Stevenson. Professor Henry Van Dyke. Phillips Brooks House...
Under the auspices of the French Department, M. Robert Duponey, of the Ecole Normale, Paris, will give a series of four public readings from the works of Victor Hugo. The readings will be given in Sever 11 on the evenings of November 25 and 27, and December 2 and 4, at 8 o'clock. The first reading will comprise: Aymerillot, from "La Legende des Siecles; Quasimodo sounant les cloches, from "Notre Dame de Paris;" and Les Djinus; from "Les Orientales...
...next meeting of the Graduate Club will be held on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House. Professor Henry Van Dyke will address the meeting on, "Robert Louis Stevenson...