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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word might be said about Dr. Blossom's translation. In many ways it lacks that which made C. K. Scott-Moncriess' translation, one of the best examples of the art in English. The Classic flavor, for instance, of that great scholar's prose, so admirably suited to the epic "Remembrance of Things Past" is, has disappeared. On the other hand, Dr. Blossom has a marvelous command of the colloquial idiom which brings out another side of Proust's French. But in any case, "The Past Recaptured" is a vast improvement over the former translation, never published in this country, titled...

Author: By R. M. M., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 11/3/1932 | See Source »

...long been respected as a manufacturer and a member of the school board. All around him was hostility. In Mississippi County waited a sheriff with an insanity warrant. In Cape Girardeau County waited 800 vigilantes determined that he should hunt no lions there. Over the rough roads of Scott County bounced the truck, stopping now and then while Hunter Wright begged shelter at a farm house. Always there was only one bed. "It's making me look like an inhuman ogre," cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Scooped Lions | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

During the boom times, Butler University (enrollment: 1,414) at Indianapolis, Ind. did its athletes proud. It built a big stadium and an elaborate Butler Field House. Ruefully last week Butler's President Walter Scott Athearn took stock. University assets are some $6,000,000. Last year's deficit came to $7,000. Describing the athletic outlay as ''millstones about the neck of the school which bid fair to bankrupt and close [it] within five years." President Athearn declared that the day of intercollegiate athletic spectacles is gone, never to return. "Gate receipts,'' mourned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College Horses | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...University Abraham Lincoln Gordon Life of Benvenuto Cellini Clement Lowell Harriss Carroll: Alice in Wonderland Isadore Herman Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress Robert Kaplan Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield William Wallace Kirkpatrick Byron's Poems Paul Lachlan MacKendrick Pericles and Aspasia Joseph Neyer Swift: Tale of a Tub Philander Silas Ratzkoff Scott: Redgauntlet Johnathan Barlow Richards Carlyle: Miscellanies John Thomas Sapienza Robinson's Poems Richard Bulger Schlatter Hallam: History of England and the Middle Ages Edgar Lawrence Smith James: Charles W. Eliot John William Walsh Carvantes: Don Quixote Class of 1935 Caesari Lombardo Barber History of Wars of Charles XII Charles Edwin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recipients of Detur Awards | 10/29/1932 | See Source »

Team B--Cassedy, l.e.; Rogers, l.t.; Cullen, l.g.; Lockwood, c.; Scott, r.g.; Kidder, r.t.; Lowe, r.e.; Peter, q.; Waters, f.b.; Gleason, r.h.b.; Sherman, l.h.b...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAM HAS BRIGHT HOPES FOR BROWN COMBAT SATURDAY | 10/27/1932 | See Source »

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