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...decision of the Yale authorities to drop Latin and Greek from the list of compulsory subjects does not imply a desire to discourage classical studies. The son of Thomas Day Seymour, we may be sure, would not join in a movement in that direction. Yale is simply acting on a principle supported by many wise educators, who love their classics. The principle is that a student will derive little or no benefit from a study that is forced on him. The time given to distasteful work is wasted. Worse still, the student is kept from studies for which...
...Apparently both the Times reporter and the Selection Committee had forgotten Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island too. A few days later indignant letter writers informed the Royal Academy that the picture was not only an illustration for Treasure Island, but an exact copy of the frontispiece of John Seymour Lucas' illustrated edition. Embarrassed, Sir William Llewellyn ordered the picture removed...
Married. Representative Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth, 40, of the 14th Massachusetts Congressional District; and Florence Booth, 28, president of the Junior League of Louisville, Ky.; in Manhattan. Harvard athlete, Congressman Wigglesworth was chief assistant (1924-27) to Agent General Seymour Parker Gilbert, whose wife Louise Todd is also Louisville-born...
...Author. Hugh Seymour Walpole, pleasantly unprofound novelist, is the son of an English bishop and feels that Life is earnest. Even in such a holiday tale as this he dutifully wrinkles his forehead, doubtfully wonders about such dark questions as the borderline of sanity, the worth of democracy, Good & Evil. Walpole devotees consider him a good if not a great novelist, a battler on the side of the angels; caustic critics call him pompous and sentimental. Walpole is supposed to be represented in Somerset Maugham's recent Cakes and Ale by "Alroy Kear." snobbish, successful but second-rate English...
...Author. Publishers Farrar & Rinehart stoutly withhold the real name of "A. Riposte," admit the author may reveal him (or her) self later. Whoever the author may be, he (or she) is obviously a good friend to Novelist Hugh Seymour Walpole (pilloried in Cakes and Ale as "Alroy Kear"), obviously has been at pains to ferret out Maugham's career, obviously has a grudge against Maugham. Mindful of possible libel action. "Riposte" steers clear of any reference to Maugham's effeminate men friends (TIME, Oct. 6). Says Publisher John Farrar: "English publishers are cabling violently. ... I feel as though...