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Included among the Humanities texts, now on display on the first floor of Widener, are the first draft of Keat's "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer," a presentation copy of the Pope "Iliad," dated 1705, with the author's name inscribed, and several early sixteenth century editions of Greek drama from the presses of Aldus Minutius in Geneva...
...Faustus, Charles McFarland played a difficult part with tremendous energy and understanding. At first a little stiff, he moved on to become actively lucid and supple. George Kyron, in the role of Mephistopheles, supplied an efficacious verve in facial characteristic and vocal bearing. Richard Kilbride and Harry Cooper, as sixteenth century comedians, were really funny. But the device employed most efficiently by the company was in the lighting, handled by Duvey himself, which served to heighten every moment and provide for the rapid change of scenes so essential to Elizabethan drama...
...Business School Alumni Association held its Sixteenth Annual Conference Saturday to discuss "The Global Problems of Peace." The program, under the direction of Eldon C. Shoup, of Boston, featured talks by Dean David of the Business School and Dean Williams of the Graduate School of Public Administration...
...Sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, used by mathematicians as a symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. It is sometimes called the Ludolphian number, after Ludolph von Ceulen who computed its value late in the 16th Century...
King George persuaded the BBC to change ITMA's broadcast time to a later hour so as not to upset the palace dinner routine. Princess Elizabeth, on her sixteenth birthday, had the cast invited to Windsor Castle for Britain's first and only command radio performance...