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When one reads today of the religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it is very difficult to make real the issues which were involved and which, in themselves, indicate the greatest difference between the spirit of that age and this. Likewise, when one reads of the conflict now going on at Yale for the abolition of compulsory attendance at chapel, it taxes the imagination to understand how such a thing can be possible in a community which everybody believes is more enlightened than that, say, of Dayton, Tennessee...
...Lawrence, one of the greatest living authorities on the English drama from the Elizabethan period through the Restoration, is offering for the first half year English 38 and English 15, two courses dealing with the early stage. In English 38, Mr. Lawrence takes up the English theatre in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dealing in detail with the structure, the public, and the players of the stage during this period. English 15, which is primarily for graduates, deals with studies and problems in the history of the theatre at this time...
...game going out and a recovery on these second nine still left him 4 down and 6 to play. He tightened up on the thirteenth hole and after taking the next two holes came back into the running. Cole dropped a birdie on the short sixteenth hole, however, while he was still two up, and clinched the match...
...Lawrence, a recognized authority on the history of the English stage from the Elizabethan period through the Restoration, will offer as half courses in the first half-year English 38 and English 15. The English Theatre in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries will be the subject for English 38, with special consideration being given to its structure, its public, and its players. English 15 will deal with Studies and Problems in the History of the English Theatre in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries...
Mapes, playing against Captain Cummings of Yale, put up a stiff battle before he succumbed to the intercollegiate champion on the sixteenth green, 3 up and 2 to go. Captain Hodder gave Wattles an even harder fight and carried the match to the seventeenth hole. In the foursomes Mapes and Hodder played the best golf of the afternoon, although they fell before Wattles and Ordway on the nineteenth hole. Barnum and Bohlen conquered Tuttle and Haviland of Yale in a very closely contested match which they ended on the seventeenth...