Word: saints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MIRACLE BOY?Louis Golding ?Knopf ($2.50). Under the jacket, on which a jaundiced little shaver is pictured wading through a swamp of flowers, lies the story of a Tyrolean peasant, who, instead of a halo, carried a raven on his shoulder. Hugo Harpf, imagined as a very recent saint, toiled in his village, loved a peasant's daughter, went to Munich to learn how to paint and came home to work miracles. For this he was first killed and then worshipped. In its intention the story is not so much a satire as a critical footnote on the life...
Professor Givler held that criticism of religion was simply a characteristic of this generation to investigate and to get at the root of all things. "Every atheist should be made a saint by the church for the healthy criticism he has given it", he said. Closing his arguments with an ode to Harvard, he pointed out that the University is "agnostic", yet a "saint" and a "sage...
Under the auspices of the Harvard Classical Club, Professor Alexander Souter, Professor of Latin at the University of Aberdeen and Fellow of the British Academy, will lecture this evening at 8 o'clock on "Saint Augustine" in the Old Fogg Museum, at a meeting open to the public. Professor Souter, is a noted classicist and authority on the Bible...
...equal Stokowski but he proved, by the thorough excellence of his performance, that the Philadelphia Orchestra was more than a tool for the musical genius of one man. In a hodge-podge of Handel, Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and Saint-Saens, the first was the best. Beside the Firework-Music (written so long ago as 1749 to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle) Stravinsky's virtuosity seemed pale, Copland's Scherzo, flimsy. Pianist Josef Hofmann gave the evening a special glitter by an interpretation of the C Minor Concerto which was more profound than Saint-Saens'music...
Many years ago, Mr. Forbes gave in trust to the University two well-known paintings now in the Museum,--a large alter-piece by Benvenuto di Giovanni, "Madonna Enthroned with Saints," and a triptych by Niccolo Da Foligno, "Madonna Enthroned between Saint Sebastin and Saint Francis." In celebration of the Norton centenary he now gives both of these pictures outright to the Fogg Museum, one in memory of Charles Eliot Norton, his teacher, the other in memory of Richard Norton, son of Professor Norton and friend of Mr. Forbes...