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...program of readings to be given by Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, tonight in the main dining room of the Union at 8.30 o'clock, will include "The Man Who Was," by Rudyard Kipling, and poems by Professor R. S. Hillyer '17, according to an announcement made yesterday by Professor Copeland...
...period of England's "dominion over palm and pine" [Poet Rudyard Kipling] is now forever over. . . . I have seen . . . in British India . . . how the masses are being affected. . . . No half-hearted measures will meet the situation...
When it became known that Sir William Watson, British poet (The Heralds of the Dawn, Selected poems), was ill and in penury, a national subscription was started for him. Some of the signatories: Hugh Walpole, Rudyard Kipling, John Galsworthy, Eden Phillpotts, George Bernard Shaw...
With bitter, rhymed invective Pact Patriot Rudyard Kipling last week flayed the Cabinet of Socialist-Pacifist James Ramsay MacDonald for suggesting in a recent diplomatic note to other governments that "distinguished visitors" be discouraged from incessantly laying wreaths on the Cenotaph and the Westminster Abbey tomb of "The Unknown Soldier." Excerpt from the new four stanza poem...
George F. Babbitt, of Zenith, Illinois, has won for American Sinclair Lowis the Noble prize for literature. Irishman Bernard Shaw and Indian Rudyard Kipling are the only other English writing authors to be raised by these letters of nobility. This graceful gesture to contemporary American literature is something of a compliment. The United States is not usually looked upon as a nation of letters...