Word: saxon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lyric, West 42nd St.--The Ramblers is another combination bill; Clark and McCullough, Marie Saxon; Ruth Tester, and Jack Whiting. Clark and McCullough are superb slapstick artsts, using the tricks of Sgannerello and Harlequin on a modern stage in a modern way. Ruth Tester glows personality. Merie Saxon and Jack Whiting prove that beauty, dancing ability, and pleasing personalities can be combined...
...obtaining honors in English, which is published elsewhere in these columns contains two points of particular significance. The division, which has been made between general and special honors does not depend upon a difference in course requirements, which are almost identical, but upon the abolition of compulsory Anglo-Saxon in the general field and upon the additional requirement in that field set forth in the statement that, "it is expected that candidates under this plan shall show evidence of especially wide rending...
...Anglo-Saxon requirement has been the besetting sin of the Honors Course in English ever since its institution: It was wholly illogical of the department to make this demand when no similar requirement for extensive knowledge of both Greek and Latin was laid down. These two languages, even to the layman, are obviously of much greater importance in the study and appreciation of English literature than is Anglo-Saxon. The new rule in effect makes Anglo-Saxon voluntary, and so removes the evil...
...Loucheur and his friends have the money and the power to realize their ideal. But will they? Can they resist the pressure of Anglo-Saxon gold upon their vacuum? Probably they cannot. Thrifty, as are nearly all Frenchmen, they are already rumored to entertain the possibility of selling to three non-Latins a third each of one of their hundred acres for a sum sufficiently stupendous to pay the expenses of developing the other...
...nearby peaks of the Whitney group bear mostly the names of geologists, explorers, and other men of science (Whitney, Langley, Muir, Hitchcock, Guyot, Russell, Leconte, Tyndall, etc.), while our great peaks in southern California have "saint" names, (San Antonio, San Gorgonio, San Jacinto, San Gabriel, etc.)--Anglo-Saxon and Spanish contrasted, or science and religion, if you like. However, we have a Devil's Punch-bowl across the range from Pasadena...