Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward H. James '96 will speak on "Jesus from a non religious point of view," at Phillips Brooks House, this afternoon at 5 o'clock...
...Captain Wright wrote: "Mr. Gladstone . . . founded the great tradition, since observed by so many of his followers and successors with such pious fidelity : in pub lic to speak the language of the highest and strictest principles and in private to pursue and possess every sort of woman...
...theatre, to the lover of stage personalities, it is irresistable. Dramatist Pinero in Trelawny has created a young playwright-one whose theories and struggles against the theatrical traditions of the time were those of Sir Arthur himself. Young Tom Wrench abhors the long, pompous speeches; his characters speak like human beings. Scornfully, the old actors reject his manuscript: "Why, sir, there isn't a speech in it . . . nothing a man can really get his teeth into." Tom finally gets a backer for his play, none other than the superbly proper, anti-theatrical Vice Chancellor, whose frolicking son marries...
...probably no more bitter intellectual conflict than that between classicism and romanticism; and it is one which--as is the case with most problems of the sort--will never be entirely settled. Each side has its extreme proponents, but whereas an extremity of classicism draws in, so to speak, upon itself, romanticism flays in a hundred different ways into infinity and approaches insanity...
Professor Wiener will speak on Tolstoy with especial comment on his "Lucerne" at 2 o'clock today in Sever...