Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dear Judas and The Loving Shepherdess, are different statements of the same idea: "You see men walking and they seem to be free but look at their faces, they're caught." The first poem is Jeffers' version of the Passion Play, with Judas cast in a major role. The second tells the story of Clare Walker, leading her dwindling flock of sheep along the California coast toward the day when her baby will be born and she will die. Says Poet Jeffers: "There is some relationship between the two . . . poems . . . the shepherdess in one, and Judas and Jesus...
...people, wets and drys alike, must approve some parts of President Hoover's message which refer to that subject. Wets cannot honestly deny his first statement, namely that the first duty of the President under his oath of office is to secure the enforcement of the laws, nor his second, namely that the enforcement of the laws enacted to give effect to the eighteenth amendment is far from satisfactory. Beyond that there may be honest differences of opinion between wets and drys. President Hoover leaves no doubt, however, as to where he stands. He is in favor of a greater...
...Second, every civilized country is engaged in a struggle to curb the drink evil. Some are trying one method and some another. Some, like England, are restricting more and more the hours and reducing the number of places in which liquor may be sold. Others are placing heavy taxes on distilled liquor in order to make it too expensive for most people. Others are prohibiting the selling of liquor except in Government dispensaries. We, in this country, have tried all of these and are now engaged in an attempt to limit the sale of liquor to medicinal and sacramental purposes...
Henry Todd Costello, A.M. '10, Ph. D. '11, now Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College, Hartford, has been appointed Lecturer on Philosophy for the second half of the present academic year, it has been announced by University Hall. George Babcock Cressey, Ph. D. in Geology at the University of Chicago in 1923 and since then Professor of Geology at Shanghai College, Shanghai, China, is spending his sabbatical year at Harvard, and working as Research Fellow in Geology...
Three Harvard professors have been voted leaves of absence. Dean Hector J. Hughes '94, of the Harvard Engineering School will be on sabbatical leave during the second half of 1929-30. Professor H. E. Clifford '89, has been named as Acting Dean of the School of Engineering during Dean Hughes' absence. Byron Satterlee Hurlbut '87, professor of English, will be absent during the second half of 1929-30, on sabbatical leave. Professor Richmond Laurin Hawkins '03, of the Department of French, was granted leave of absence during the academic year...