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...although it has shown particular ability at thrilling narrative such as "Marie Antoinette" it is more than capable in recording scholarly research and thought. Zweig's biography of Erasmus is not a conventional biography; it is rather a perceptive study of the great thinker as a representative of sixteenth century Humanism, a cold unimpassioned word picture of a mind rather than a man. Erasmus was a thinker not a doer; it was he who laid the foundation upon which Luther based his violent departure from the past and the unity of Christendom in the West. Erasmus was an enlightener...
...clay on which the picture was originally painted is then scraped from the back side and the inner surface of the paint is cleansed. A new base of clay on presswood is affixed and the muslin-tissue support is dissolved from the face. Thus only the pigment, about a sixteenth of an inch thick, is kept intact during the process of restoration...
...fall production this year, the Dramatic Club has selected "La Machine Infernale" by the French playwright, Jean Cocteau. The play which was produced in Paris for the first time last spring, will reach the Cambridge stage before Christmas, probably on the fifteenth and sixteenth of December...
...good teaching. A good deal of this is surely pure misunderstanding. There are as yet few signs that the present administration really means to fill the Harvard faculty with men who devote their lives to the adverb in Tacitus or to the importation of bananas into Brittany during the sixteenth century, and none that it wishes to get rid of teachers who might follow in the footsteps of James, Norton, Babbitt, and their peers...
...orchestra expects to include New York in a proposed spring four next year. In addition, concerts consisting solely of music of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries will be given under the leadership of a guest conductor, and the Sodality will assist the Glee Club and the Wellesley Cheral Society and Orchestra in a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta...