Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles, New Hampshire's blue-eyed, chunky Senator Styles Bridges resumed a national tour. Ohio's Senator Robert Taft plodded through the Midwest. Michigan's Vandenberg sawed wood, kept mum in Grand Rapids. Texas newshawks held an "Evil Old Men's" dinner in honor of John Garner. In Baltimore, Montana's Senator Wheeler said pretty things of Franklin Roosevelt. In New York City, Thomas E. Dewey polished up a GOPresidential bandwagon, prepared to start it rolling in Minneapolis...
That is the way Poet Robert Lee Frost, sitting in the new Ralph Waldo Emerson Chair of Poetry,* talked to some 40 reverently attentive students at Harvard University last week. No newcomer to Harvard or to teaching, Robert Frost was successively English Professor at Amherst, and Poet in Residence at the University of Michigan; at Harvard for three years gave the popular Charles Eliot Norton poetry lectures. Harvard hopes he will sit in the Emerson Chair for at least two years...
Never a formal man, Robert Frost is at his most informal on the Thursday nights when he slouches crosslegged, drawling away for a couple of hours in the shadowy, comfortable Upper Common Room at Harvard's Adams House. A master poet, he takes a poet's license in teaching. His half-year course is labeled "Poetry," but Frost gives himself a wide range. Some of his class find plenty to worry about in such Frost-bites as: "Don't Work - Worry" -or: "I save my scorn for the people who say what everyone else says...
Last week this theory got a bucket of cold water thrown right in its face. In the New England Journal of Medicine, hard-headed Psychiatrists Robert Edward Fleming and Kenneth James Tillotson denied that there is any such thing as an "alcoholic personality." Anyone, they said, "can become an alcoholic if he drinks long enough and heavily enough...
...Three dances on one ticket" will be the theme of tonight's combination dance given by Leverett, Winthrop, and Eliot Houses. The affair is under the direction of a central committee composed of Mason Fernald '40, Henry A. Burgess '40, and Robert J. Glazer...