Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. . . ." This line of Hamlet--or rather its general content, for an exact quotation would be a bit much to ask from one who has never taken English 2--occurred to the Vagabond yesterday as he looked at some drawings, illustrations for the Book of Job, Dante's "Divine Comedy" and others, by William Blake...
...just when poets in this country were turning from Emerson and Longfellow and entering what for want of a better term can be called the modern phase. At the same hour incidently, Professor Baxter will speak on. "The United States and International Arbitration" a subject which has to say the least, great possibilities. This lecture will be given in Sever 35. Also at 10 o'clock in the geological Lecture Hall, Professor Parker will discuss Lamarckism...
...none who formerly featured in their own reading of the works of the month or the day. As contemporary criticism is dangerous and liable to error, so it is also fascinating and extremely provocative of dispute. The Vagabond is very anxious to hear what Professor Murdock has to say of the favorites of his childhood--he expects to listen and to disagree...
THERE are two types of the literary college professor: the stodgy ones who edit, say, the works of George Lillo with compendious notes, of whom all college students have seen far too many specimens, and the sprightly ones who pride themselves on keeping up with the latest vagaries of the inexplicably unscholastic. Stuart, Sherman was one of the best of the second type a man whom Illinois University students revered as if he had been a combination of Doctor Johnson, Barrett Wendell and William Lyon Phelps, and whose directing of the Herald-Tribune Book Review endeared him to that dreadfully...
...makes an attempt at any kind of distinguishing, in preferring Esther Shephard's "Paul Bunyan" to James Stephens', and in protesting against Dreiser's fearful style, are too obvious to argue any great subtlety. Elsewhere he is prone to sit back, fold his hands comfortably over his stomach and say: "Great, absolutely great! Do go on!" by the hour together. He does not like everything else he treats--but almost, and it cannot be possible for any one man to find so many new books that he likes so well in a short three years...