Word: schenck
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...production under its new policy of staging plays by foreign authors that have not been given in this country, Lord Dunsany's latest play, a one-act comedy, "Fame and the Poet," and Holberg's Erasmus Montanus," or "Jeppe," a comedy translated from the Danish by the late Frederick Schenck '09 and O. J. Campell...
...LaFarge writes "To Frederic Schenck". The value of the poem is in the feeling it expresses toward its subject; a value marred only by the frequent lapses in word or phrase from the exalted to the mediocre. Possibly a simpler form might have left the evident sincerity of the work freer to be felt, but as it stands we may be grateful for the poem. The same difficulty with external form bothers the author of "Ghosts", and the reader is jolted out of whatever enjoyment he might derive from this treatment of an old theme. "The Gallows Thing...
...reprinting from the Atlantic Monthly the last published words of Frederic Schenck, untimely rapt away,--words, which, by a strange fate, discuss another's guessing at the problem Schenck himself was so soon to solve, the editors have paid a graceful tribute to the memory of a brilliant...
...most able sons, not only in the armies of the nation, but also among those who carried on the work of the country and the College throughout the critical period. Few of this latter group merited more the respect and admiration of both graduates and undergraduates than Frederic Schenck '09, whose death we today record with sorrow...
Little can be added to the appreciation of Dr. Schenck which Professor Merriman has written. Yet there is one feature of his life at Harvard to which tribute can not be too often made: he was the intimate friend not only of his colleagues in the Faculty, but also of a large part of the undergraduate body. That indefinable contact-a bond which held beyond the walls of the lecture hall-was characteristic of him; many more famous masters of learning have sought it and failed. He was first and always our friend; kind, sympathetic, tolerant, never the teacher...